Meeting
Abstract Number: 780
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male with a history of heavy cigarette smoking and COPD presented with a six-month-long hacking cough with sputum production, night sweats, weight loss, and malaise. He was treated with multiple courses of azithromycin for community-acquired pneumonia without improvement. He had a history of asbestos exposure as a shipyard worker. He did [...]
Abstract Number: 0506
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented with fever, diffuse rash, and hypoesthesia. One year prior, the patient developed flesh-colored patches on her abdomen and raised lesions under her left arm. A biopsy revealed cutaneous nontuberculous mycobacterial infection with 4+ acid fast bacilli (AFB) stain, but AFB cultures were negative. [...]