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Search Results for Hodgkin\'s lymphoma
Abstract Number: 433
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67 year old woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis. She underwent elective cholecystectomy, complicated by Clostridium difficile colitis. Despite treatment with oral Vancomycin, she had persistent diarrhea and failure to thrive for a month. Repeat Clostridium difficile toxin was negative. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed erosive gastritis […]
Abstract Number: 525
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 25-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with a 2-day history of abdominal pain which began abruptly and was associated with fevers, chills as well as intermittent nonproductive cough which had been present since her last episode of pneumonia about 6 months ago. She was admitted to the ICU for management of […]
Abstract Number: 576
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 27-year old African American male presented with 3 months of bilateral inguinal lymph node enlargement, fevers, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Patient presented for outpatient nodal biopsy and subsequently sent to the ED with severe thrombocytopenia with platelets less than 10,000 and complaints of gum bleeding and petechiae of 3 days. […]
Abstract Number: 584
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47- year-old man with a history of hypothyroidism presented to the emergency room (ER) for the evaluation of generalized body weakness and jaundice of a week duration. There was also associated intense generalized pruritus of about 6 months; subjective weight loss, recurrent fevers, nausea and vomiting. Physical examination was significant for an […]
Abstract Number: 598
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 77 year old Jehovah’s Witness woman presented with one month of petechial rash, epistaxis and oral mucosal bleeding. There was no recent travel or infectious illness. She denied herbal or toxic ingestions. Her exam was remarkable only for diffuse petechiae. Labwork was significant for new severe thrombocytopenia (2 K/UL), a normal peripheral […]
Abstract Number: 737
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old Hispanic woman presented with 5 days of subjective fevers, jaundice, nausea, vomiting, and right-sided abdominal pain. On presentation, she was febrile with borderline hypotension and tachycardia, abdominal tenderness, and laboratory values notable for leukopenia and transaminitis with direct hyperbilirubinemia. The patient received vancomycin, cefepime, metronizadole, and intravenous fluids per sepsis protocol. She was intubated […]