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Abstract Number: 563
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female presented to the Emergency Department with progressive weakness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and confusion for several weeks following an eye surgery the month prior, with symptoms acutely worsening over the last week. On the day of admission, she was found disoriented and clinging to a doorway at home, unable […]
Abstract Number: 564
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension presented with a sudden onset of slurred speech, right gaze preference, and left-sided body weakness while at a hair salon. In the Emergency Department, she was afebrile, blood pressure 110/70 mmHg, and heart rate 105 beats per minute. CT head without contrast revealed […]
Abstract Number: 574
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 61 year old female with history of metastatic breast carcinoma presented to the hospital for an elective vertebral cryoablation and kyphoplasty to treat her painful bony metastasis. She has known vertebral lytic lesions in addition to a suspected right adrenal involvement. On the first day, cryoablation was performed uneventfully under general anesthesia. […]
Abstract Number: 592
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old male with a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presented with shortness of breath and weakness. He had been diagnosed with CLL eight years ago and was placed on acalabrutinib 3 months previously. He was hospitalized twice in the prior 2 months for pneumonia.The patient was found to be tachycardic (102/min), […]
Abstract Number: 592
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old female presented to the emergency department with profuse vomiting, fever, chills, lightheadedness, dizziness, and the inability to tolerate oral intake. She had been in her usual state of health until two hours after returning from a doctor’s appointment where she received methylene blue intravenously. Past history included hypothyroidism, postural orthostatic tachycardia […]
Abstract Number: 644
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 35-year-old male with a history of hypertension who was transferred from an outside hospital (OSH) for renal vein, and inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis. A month prior to presentation to the OSH, he had developed acute, right-sided flank pain with nausea. At the OSH, he was diagnosed with nephrolithiasis, […]
Abstract Number: 650
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 20-year-old male presented with a one-week history of high fevers, headaches and nasal congestion, and he was diagnosed with Covid-19. Over the following three days, he developed left eye proptosis, altered mental status and photophobia. Prior to infection, the patient was in good health, did not smoke and had no family history […]
Abstract Number: 703
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 37 year old female with a past medical history of Hypertension, Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (EF=40-45%), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome presented to the Emergency Department with complaints of pleuritic chest pain that had been persistent for two days duration which radiated down her left arm. Initial laboratory workup noted a normal […]
Abstract Number: 706
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old man with thrombocytopenia and hypertension was admitted with acute left pontine ischemic stroke. One week later, he underwent computed tomography (CT) of abdomen for persistent abdominal pain and fever, revealing multiple emboli involving the pulmonary, mesenteric and splenic artery. Doppler studies revealed right lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and arterial […]
Abstract Number: 728
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 37 year-old female with history of menorrhagia on oral contraceptives (OCP) for 2 months, presented with abrupt onset of right lower quadrant abdominal pain (RLQ) for 1 day. Pain was 10/10, constant, sharp, with radiation to right flank, without alleviating factors. Pain was associated with nausea and multiple episodes of vomiting. She […]