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Search Results for Leukemia
Abstract Number: 793
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Patient is a 60-year-old male with past medical history of Ledin’s factor V deficiency who presented to the ER with complaints of fever, chills, and weakness. His symptoms started with a headache, cyclical fevers, and violent rigors lasting several minutes. With the onset of rigors, patient progressed to develop ascending weakness. In the […]
Abstract Number: 800
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male, post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) presented to an outside hospital with high fevers, frontal lobe headaches, and blood-tinged sinus drainage, two weeks after completing chemotherapy. Days later, the patient was transferred to our hospital for advanced care, reporting continued fevers (up to 38.6oC), […]
Abstract Number: 842
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 74 year old man with a history of hypertension and chronic hepatitis C infection presented to the hospital with a worsening pruritic rash on his palms and soles. The rash developed acutely one year prior and biopsy was suggestive of eczematous dermatitis. Symptoms persisted in spite of multiple treatments including topical and […]
Abstract Number: 844
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 19 year old male who presented to Riverside Medical Center with acute onset, progressive bilateral lower extremity weakness and paresthesias, urinary retention and saddle anesthesia. Initial CBC significant for anemia and thrombocytopenia. Peripheral smear showed 67% circulating blasts with occasional Auer rods, which was suggestive of acute myeloid leukemia. Flow cytommetry showed expression […]
Abstract Number: 847
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old woman with a medical history of asthma and hypertension presented with generalized weakness and poor oral intake. Initial vital signs showed heart rate of 108 beats/minute, blood pressure 146/77 mmHg, temperature of 105.5 F and respiratory rate of 15 breaths/minute. Admission labs showed a leukocytosis (78.56 K/uL cells) with blasts, thrombocytopenia […]
Abstract Number: 876
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Our 28-year-old female patient with a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant presented to the Emergency Department (ED) for the evaluation of intermittent confusion and word-finding difficulty for one week. The patient’s vitals on admission were within normal limits. A physical examination was significant for diffuse […]
Abstract Number: 887
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: We present a case series of three patients who developed secondary B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) after multiple myeloma (MM) treatment. Case 1: A 71-year-old male with a four-year history of standard-risk kappa MM presented with weakness, fever, cough, and pancytopenia. His MM had initially been treated with six cycles of lenalidomide (R), […]
Abstract Number: B34
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male with type II diabetes presented to the hospital with 3 weeks of oral ulcers involving the left buccal region with spread to the palate and tongue. He also reported odynophagia, poor oral intake, and 40-lb weight loss. He had not responded to outpatient amoxicillin, fluconazole, and nystatin swish and swallow. […]
Abstract Number: E38
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Hepatic carcinosarcoma (HCS) is an extremely rare kind of hepatic malignancy with elements of both carcinoma and sarcoma. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), on the other hand, is the most common lymphoid malignancy in North America accounting for ~25% of leukemia cases in the United States. This is the first case report in medical […]
Abstract Number: H25
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 40 year-old female presented to the Emergency Department with several months of fatigue followed by acute fever and confusion. She denied weight loss, swollen glands, cough, rash, arthralgias, or myalgias. No drug or alcohol use. She was febrile to 102.5F. The remainder of the vital signs were normal, and the neuro exam […]