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Search Results for Henoch Schonlein Purpura
Abstract Number: 626
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old man with extreme obesity, heart failure, and a clinical diagnosis of gout presented with abdominal pain. Abdominal examination was limited by body habitus, as his body mass index was 68. Admission laboratory studies revealed acute kidney injury. He had been hospitalized before for similar presentations, but clear etiologies for the abdominal […]
Abstract Number: 663
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old male without significant past medical history presented with fevers, progressive purpuric rash that started in the ankles and spread in a centrifugal distribution, joint stiffness, as well as a rapidly progressive right-sided neck mass. Two weeks prior to presentation he had experienced sore throat and subjective fevers which self-resolved. One week […]
Abstract Number: 724
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male with no known history presented with complaints of back pain and shortness of breath for four days. Work up initially revealed pyelonephritis. The patient was treated with Amoxicillin-Clavunate. After a month, patient was re-evaluated for increased shortness of breath, fatigue, abdominal pain, diffuse arthralgia, and a new rash. The shortness […]
Abstract Number: 892
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: IgA Vasculitis, formerly known as Henoch-Shönlein Purpura, is a systemic vasculitis most often seen in children. We present a case of a 28 yo obese man who presented to his primary care physician with complaints of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and sore throat for twelve hours. He was diagnosed with viral gastroenteritis and […]
Abstract Number: 996
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man without significant medical history presented with two months of purpura over his lower extremities and abdomen, ankle pain, and two days of severe abdominal pain associated with vomiting and melena. His symptoms started following a respiratory infection. On presentation, he was afebrile with normal vital signs. Physical exam was notable […]