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Search Results for Immunosuppression
Abstract Number: 681
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old female with a history of an incarcerated hernia, Clostridium difficile colitis, hypertension, and dyslipidemia presented to the emergency department (ED) with bloody diarrhea and weakness. On admission, the patient denied fevers, chills, or cough. Additional symptoms included self-limited hyponatremia (133 mmol/L), likely due to excessive diarrhea, bleeding internal hemorrhoids with discomfort, […]
Abstract Number: 723
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Four years after kidney transplantation a 65 year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and no psychiatric history is referred to the hospital by her primary care physician to evaluate altered mental status. She was successfully maintained on tacrolimus with stable trough levels. During the preceding three months she had developed progressive symptoms […]
Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male with no significant past medical history was admitted with 10 days of persistent fevers, cough, shortness of breath that worsened with exertion, weight loss, nausea, and vomiting. The patient had no history of travel to any TB-endemic areas, was in a monogamous relationship with his wife, denied IVDU, and had […]
Abstract Number: 926
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 42 year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented with a one-week history of sudden bilateral vision loss. Two weeks prior, she reported new bifrontal, pounding headaches with subsequent blurring of vision in her right eye. After two weeks, her headaches suddenly disappeared with sudden bilateral, painless blindness. Evaluation by a […]
Abstract Number: 965
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) is a disease characterized by persistently low CD4 T-cell counts without HIV infection or any other discernible cause of T-cell suppression. Individuals with ICL are at increased risk of opportunistic infections, lymphomas, and autoimmune diseases. Diagnosis can be difficult, and prognosis can vary widely depending on the diseases that […]
Abstract Number: 990
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man with significant history of deceased donor transplant (18 months prior to presentation), hypertension, diabetes mellitus, who presented with two weeks of fevers and malaise. His other symptoms included drenching night sweats, shortness of breath, and diffuse pleuritic chest pain, however he denied cough. A recent exposure was a renovation of […]
Abstract Number: I29
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old farmer with a past medical history significant for antiphospholipid syndrome, atrial fibrillation (AF), and longstanding rheumatoid arthritis on infliximab therapy presented to the ED with weakness and dyspnea. History from family and recent rheumatology visit revealed a history of non-compliance and self-injection with livestock glucocorticoids due to self-diagnosed rheumatoid vasculitis and […]
Abstract Number: J41
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old Hispanic male with a history of acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) presents with subjective fever of three-day duration after one week of induction chemotherapy with fludarabine, cytarabine, filgrastim (FLAG), and venetoclax. Otherwise, the patient denies cough, shortness-of-breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or dysuria. Vitals signs showed a temperature of 37.6C, pulse of 87, […]
Abstract Number: L31
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 71-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation, presented with four-months of fatigue, 50lb weight loss, night sweats and petechiae spreading from legs to abdomen and arms. On admission, vital signs were unremarkable. On physical exam, he had non-blanching, non-palpable petechiae extending from his lower extremities (LEs) to torso and upper extremities and […]
Abstract Number: 1029
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 68-year-old woman who was in her usual state of health until July 2019 who presented with abdominal pain, back pain along with unintentional weight loss. Imaging revealed a mass in her pancreatic body which was confirmed with EUS and biopsy as invasive pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In late August, she presented with […]