Meeting
Abstract Number: 604
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male with a past medical history significant for hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with progressively worsening dry cough, shortness of breath, and non-exertional pleuritic chest pain associated with chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and generalized bodyache for 2 weeks, worsened over last 24 hours. On evaluation, was found to […]
Abstract Number: 626
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 52 year old African American male with past medical history of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) on aminocaproic acid presents with epistaxis and hematochezia with a hemoglobin of 6.7 g/dL. Patient was diagnosed with HHT in his mid-30s when found to be profoundly anemic with reported hemoglobin of below 3 g/dL during incarceration. […]