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Abstract Number: 628
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32 year-old African American man with a history of Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s Disease (KFD), presented with 2 weeks of fever, cervical lymphadenopathy and cough. Laboratory tests showed pancytopenia, elevated ESR, positive double stranded DNA and ANA titer. Complement 3 and 4 levels were low. His fever persisted despite broad spectrum antibiotics. Computed tomography (CT) […]
Abstract Number: 638
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male underwent vascular repair for a psuedoaneurysm of left brachiocephalic arteriovenous fistula. During surgery he was noted to have excessive bleeding and also postoperatively, he continued to ooze from the surgical site. His labs revealed PT of 33.5 seconds, INR of 3.3, and PTT of 53.7 seconds. His mixing studies showed […]
Abstract Number: 684
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Lupus Presenting as Abdominal Pain: More than a Gut Feeling Ileannette Robledo, MD, Jose Carlos Barrientos, MD, Joan Bosco, MD, Christine Chen, MD, Harry Fischer, MD, Wan Ling Lam MD, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, Abstract Text: Case Presentation: We describe a case of a 28-year-old Asian woman with […]
Abstract Number: 699
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old African American male with no past history presented to our hospital with paresthesias, joint pain, and leg swelling of a few weeks’ duration. On examination, fever, tachycardia, maculopapular rash involving both arms, swelling & tenderness in bilateral knee & ankle joints, and pitting edema in bilateral lower extremities were noted. Testing […]
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: 705
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 13-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency department with 1 day of jaundice and scleral icterus as well as acute on chronic progressive abdominal pain. Review of systems was notable for unintentional 5 kg weight loss over the past year, fatigue, oral ulcers, Raynaud’s phenomenon, and gross hematuria. He had no […]
Abstract Number: 714
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male presented with a new onset focal seizure and dull persistent right sided headaches for 2 weeks. Physical exam was negative for any focal neurological deficit except for a diffuse erythematous rash involving trunk and his extremities, bilateral conjunctival injection and mild confusion. An urgent CT head revealed a small acute […]
Abstract Number: 724
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male with no known history presented with complaints of back pain and shortness of breath for four days. Work up initially revealed pyelonephritis. The patient was treated with Amoxicillin-Clavunate. After a month, patient was re-evaluated for increased shortness of breath, fatigue, abdominal pain, diffuse arthralgia, and a new rash. The shortness […]
Abstract Number: 724
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) not on immunosuppressive therapy presented with confusion and body rash. She was discharged 2 weeks prior, following admission for bacterial meningitis and brain abscess; her abscess was drained with negative cultures, and she was discharged with a prolonged course of ceftriaxone and […]
Abstract Number: 728
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with a history of systemic lupus was found at home unresponsive by family and brought to a local ED. At the ED she was hyperthermic to 106F and hypotensive then transferred to Vidant Medical Center fevers and septic shock. Of note she had recently been discharged from Duke […]