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Abstract Number: 596
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 76 year-old African American female with no past medical history presented with new onset shortness of breath and substernal chest pressure of three week duration. She noted that she had been previously healthy without any issues prior to this incident. On presentation, the patient was afebrile and normotensive (125/76) but tachycardic (110 […]
Abstract Number: 623
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old man with history of end-stage renal disease and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus presents to the hospital after a fall due to unsteady gait and was noted to have facial movements similar to tardive dyskinesia, whole body chorea, and hyperkinesis of torso and bilateral extremities. On admission, he had an […]
Abstract Number: 639
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male comorbid with hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of worsening bifrontal headaches and progressive cognitive decline. The headaches were increasing in both frequency and severity, occurring throughout the day and night. He also endorsed nausea, light sensitivity, word-finding difficulty, and new memory […]
Abstract Number: 648
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old female presented with a 1-day history of exertional, non-positional, mid-sternal, severe chest pain associated with nausea, palpitations and dyspnea. She denied orthopnea, ankle swelling, cough, wheeze, coryza, fever, chills, or recent ill contacts. Past medical history: asthma, vertebral artery dissection, hypothyroidism, migraines, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) infection […]
Abstract Number: 723
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 2-year-old female presented to our Gastroenterology service with persistent failure to thrive (FTT). She was born at term and remained in the 10th percentile in weight for the first nine months. She continued to grow in length but did not gain weight. Initial inpatient workup at 13 months revealed a CBC, TSH, […]
Abstract Number: 750
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 69 y/o female presents to the emergency department with acute on subacute low back pain in the setting of fall 12 weeks prior. Treated outpatient with conservative therapy including topicals, NSAIDs, tramadol, Flexeril and physical therapy. PMH of asthma, migraines, breast cancer in remission (s/p lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation in 2015, last annual […]
Abstract Number: 897
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old African-American man with obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency department after being called-back due to evidence of complete atrioventricular (AV) block on routine electrocardiogram. Patient reported a 6-month history of fatigue and exertional dyspnea. On physical examination, he was afebrile and in no acute distress. Vital signs were BP: 142/92 […]
Abstract Number: A17
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Although most cigarette smokers want to quit, current cessation therapies have limited effectiveness. Preventing relapse is limited by insufficient understanding of the neural pathways that are triggered during relapse. With recent advances in functional connectivity analysis, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies offer the ability to better neural functional connectivity during relapse. This study […]
Abstract Number: F31
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old female awoke one morning to thirty minutes of right sided weakness and slurred speech prompting hospital admission for stroke. Treatment with metronidazole and ciprofloxacin for colitis diagnosed two days ago was continued in hospital. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) of the brain MRI revealed infarctions in multiple vascular territories involving bilateral cerebral […]
Abstract Number: G40
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old previously healthy Caucasian woman was evaluated by a neurologist for seizure-like activity and syncope. She was placed on a Holter monitor that showed episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia (VT), and third-degree AV block. She presented to the emergency department with chest pain, a new left bundle branch block, and […]