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Search Results for Histiocytosis
Abstract Number: 834
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 27-year-old female without any significant medical history, who developed acute kidney injury, metabolic acidosis, increasing liver enzymes, coagulopathy, anemia, thrombocytopenia and undifferentiated shock requiring pressors on 6th post-partum delivery. Peripheral smear showed atypical lymphocytes, dohle bodies and neutrophils with toxic vacuolization, suggesting an inflammatory processOther labs were significant for elevated ferritin levels […]
Abstract Number: 869
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with a past medical history of microcytic anemia and recently-diagnosed AOSD presented with 2 weeks of progressive dyspnea. On her preceding hospital admission, her AOSD was diagnosed and clinical suspicion for MAS was initially mounted. At that time, she demonstrated polyarthralgia, pruritic rash, high-grade fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse lymphadenopathy, neutrophilic leukocytosis, […]
Abstract Number: 975
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 43 year old female with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department after developing subjective fevers, myalgias, arthralgias, and malaise one week after a hiking trip in northern Minnesota. She had a fever of 39.2℃ and splenomegaly with no rash. Pertinent labs showed a hemoglobin of 12.1 g/dL (11.6-15.0 […]
Abstract Number: C38
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Babesiosis, most commonly caused by Babesia microti and transmitted by the Ixodes tick, is one of the predominant tick-borne diseases of Northeast and upper Midwestern United States (1, 2). Clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic infection to severe fulminant disease, with fever being the most common presentation (3). Acute respiratory distress syndrome and disseminated […]
Abstract Number: H32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male presented to the Emergency Room with one week of worsening productive cough, fevers (Tmax 103F), vomiting, diarrhea, and malaise. His past medical history was significant for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), treated with etanercept, hydroxychloroquine, leflunomide and sulfasalazine. On physical examination, he was febrile, normotensive with tachycardia, and tachypneic with diminished breath […]
Abstract Number: J32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 31-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented with fever, chills, night sweats, and rash. One week prior, he underwent incision and drainage of a perirectal abscess and was started on a 7-day course of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). On the second day following the procedure, he developed fevers, chills, night sweats, and […]
Abstract Number: L40
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 48 year old woman with a history of stroke, idiopathic intracranial HTN, type 2 DM, HTN, and obesity, presented a few hours after developing increasing confusion and lethargy. For 2 weeks, she also reports headache, neck pain, poor appetite, nausea, rare vomiting, and occasional diarrhea. Exposure history notable for owning a dog, […]
Abstract Number: 1052
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40 year old female with a medical history of pancreatitis and gastroesophageal reflux initially presented with cough and viral cold symptoms. She was initially febrile to 102 F, with labs significant for WBC 3,900 (normal 4,500-11,000 WBC/uL), hemoglobin 9.1 (12.0-15.5 g/dL), and platelet count 35,000 (150,000-450,000 /uL). She quickly deteriorated with new […]
Abstract Number: 1080
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old female with past medical history significant for myasthenia gravis managed with azathioprine (AZA) presented with recurrent fevers, shortness of breath, malaise and night sweats for one week after attending a funeral in Pennsylvania. She denied any sick contacts, hiking, animal exposure, tick bites, or rashes. She was seen outpatient and her […]