Meeting
Abstract Number: 538
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old female presented with headaches and intermittent fevers. On initial examination, she had left hand weakness. Laboratory findings revealed leukocytosis; brain MRI demonstrated multiple bilateral cerebral infarcts. Initial workup was concerning for embolic stroke which initiated our search for a cardioembolic source. No significant abnormalities were seen on transthoracic echo (TTE) and […]
Abstract Number: 553
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with a history of a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) during pregnancy and dementia presented with dyspnea and acute hypoxemia. Shortly thereafter, she developed persistent fevers and acute encephalopathy. Initial testing, including lumbar puncture, chest x-ray, multiple blood cultures, urine cultures, respiratory cultures, and RPR were all unremarkable. CT head was […]
Abstract Number: 746
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain and lower extremity swelling while taking low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH). One month prior she was diagnosed with a left lower extremity DVT after a hysterectomy. She was treated with LMWH with a planned transition to rivaroxaban. Medical history […]
Abstract Number: 896
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 66 year old female with a past medical history of hypertension (HTN), hyperlipidemia (HLD) and coronary artery disease (CAD) presented to the hospital for an elective three-vessel coronary artery bypass graft involving the left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery, saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the obtuse marginal artery, and […]