Meeting
Abstract Number: A49
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female with essential hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism and MGUS presented to Wheeling Hospital complaining of weakness, dyspnea on exertion and right lower extremity pain for two weeks. Patient was treated for a right gastrocnemius DVT, acute SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and pulmonary emboli in right middle and lower lobe pulmonary artery branches with smaller […]
Abstract Number: K42
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old African American man with history of methamphetamine use disorder, hypertension, and stuttering priapism presented with 2 weeks of painful priapism. Over the past 3 months, the patient had 4 other episodes of priapism lasting 1-4 days that were treated with multiple corporeal aspirations and intracavernous epinephrine injections with temporary relief. He […]
Abstract Number: 1083
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Dejerine-Roussy syndrome is a rare condition usually caused by ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes involving the thalamus. Patients develop dysesthesia or allodynia, weeks to months after the initial stroke. We present a case of central thalamic pain in a patient who presented with a middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarct with thalamic involvement. A 77 […]
Abstract Number: 1139
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old female with pseudomyxoma peritonei was admitted to the hospital for surgical debulking. She was started on Lovenox post-operatively. A week later she became hypotensive with acute hypoxic respiratory failure. She was intubated and started on vasopressor therapy with an improvement in her hemodynamics. CT angiogram of the chest depicted a pulmonary […]