Meeting
Abstract Number: 479
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old Caucasian woman presented with severe vomiting and abdominal pain for three days. Her past medical history revealed that she was diagnosed in 2010 with ulcerative colitis proctitis and was recently started on azathioprine. In the past, she had received a short course of steroids, but was complicated by an increase in […]
Abstract Number: 688
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 35 year-old Chinese male with a known history of Crohn’s disease was diagnosed in 2014 and treated with nine doses of infliximab. He had normalization of his colon on follow up colonoscopy, but without complete resolution of the patient’s symptoms. He was started on azathioprine and his symptoms worsened. Repeat colonoscopy showed […]
Abstract Number: 701
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 70 year old male with psoriatic arthritis on infliximab, hypertension, and chronic low back pain complained of three weeks of intermittent fevers, headaches and worsening back pain after returning from the Dominican Republic. He reported contact with a box turtle and a non-traumatic bird bite but denied sick contacts. In addition to […]