Meeting
Abstract Number: 855
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 71 years old female with a history of hypertension presented with nausea, vomiting, and fall. She had non-bloody, non-bilious emesis after eating pork 2 days prior to admission. She worked in a kindergarten with no definitive sick contacts. She did not have abdominal pain or diarrhea but she experienced lightheadedness. She was […]
Abstract Number: 1002
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 18-year-old female college student with a past medical history of polycystic kidney disease, febrile seizures and treated Kawasaki’s disease presented with bilateral lower extremity muscle weakness, which was acute and uniform without any patterns such as ascending or descending quality. The severity of the symptoms lead to patient’s inability to ambulate without support […]
Abstract Number: 1076
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present the case of a 65-year-old male with no previous smoking or supplemental oxygen history who presented to the emergency department after routine clinic visit that was ultimately found to have cryptogenic organizing pneumonia from Influenza type B. Past medical history was insignificant except for recent hospital admission the week prior that […]