Meeting
Abstract Number: 550
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 46 year old male patient with history of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in remission, and hypercoagulable state, status post IVC-F placement in 2005 and anticoagulation. He presented with hypotension and dizziness. He has been suffering from dizziness for several months but it has been getting progressively worse, to a level that he is unable […]
Abstract Number: 838
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden onset shortness of breath (SOB) associated with chest pain. He had a past medical history significant for hypertension, history of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism for which an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter was placed 26 years ago. He was tachycardic and […]
Abstract Number: B38
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old male with a past medical history of left frontal Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with recent resection, radiation therapy, and temozolomide presented to the emergency department with chest pain. CT chest revealed bilateral subsegmental pulmonary embolisms for which a heparin drip was initiated. Duplex also shows a right lower extremity DVT. Given recent […]
Abstract Number: 1026
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54 year-old woman with history of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis (with prior placement of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter on apixaban) presents with recurrence of hematemesis and dark stool. This was her third hospitalization with GI bleed requiring transfusion in the last few weeks. Her prior work up included multiple […]