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Search Results for Myelitis
Abstract Number: 827
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female with metastatic thyroid cancer status-post (s/p) radioiodine ablation and total thyroidectomy on oral chemotherapy, chronic kidney disease stage IV s/p deceased donor kidney transplant in 2019 on oral immunosuppression, presented with weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and acute-on-chronic dysphagia. While dysphagia work-up was ongoing, patient was noted to have right wrist swelling, […]
Abstract Number: 853
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 52 years old male with no significant past medical history presented to the hospital with back pain within few days to leg tingling ascending to his nipple level with weakness and inability to walk. In the ED, he was noted to have myelopathic changes on exam from T2-3 level down with hyperreflexia in […]
Abstract Number: 858
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old woman with medical history of atrial fibrillation, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and osteoporosis presented with left lower extremity weakness and left thigh numbness. The patient was walking when she felt lightheaded and developed left thigh tingling followed by left leg weakness. She presented the next day unable to walk independently. On physical exam […]
Abstract Number: 862
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is the case of a 44-year-old Hispanic male with a history of polysubstance use (alcohol, marijuana and cocaine) and vitamin B12 deficiency presented to the emergency department with lower limb weakness, fasciculations, spasms, paresthesia, ataxia, left-sided blurry vision, emesis and intractable hiccups for several days. He initially symptoms started in September 2018 […]
Abstract Number: 898
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 69 year old male was brought to the emergency department from a rehabilitation facility with altered mental status. Two months ago, he had been admitted for lumbar osteomyelitis for which he was started on Vancomycin and Cefepime and was discharged to a rehabilitation facility. After six weeks of therapy, he was more […]
Abstract Number: A27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 25 year old woman with history of asthma presented to the emergency department with one week of sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Upon arrival, she was hypotensive, tachycardic, tachypneic, febrile, and was found to have leukocytosis, elevated lactate, procalcitonin, and creatinine prompting concern for septic shock. She […]
Abstract Number: D25
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old man with past medical history of recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented to our hospital with numbness of the lower extremities for two weeks. The patient stated the numbness had progressed from his right leg to his left leg. He also mentioned having urinary and fecal retention. He denied any recent […]
Abstract Number: D33
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 66 year old male with past medical history of hypertension presented with complains of tingling sensations & weakness involving his hands for 2 weeks. His initial symptoms began with weakness involving bilateral feet, legs & hamstrings that started about 10 weeks prior to this presentation. He received moderna vaccine 1 month prior to […]
Abstract Number: L24
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Our vignette is of a 14-year-old female who presented to the emergency room for complaints of right elbow pain and swelling. Patient underwent open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) for right elbow fracture when she was 2-years old. The hardware was removed successfully after the fracture healed. Since then, the patient had 3 fractures […]
Abstract Number: O42
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: An 80 year old woman with a history of disseminated tuberculosis (positive TB cultures in knee wound and pulmonary cavitary lesion in 2021) presented to the emergency room for edema and erythema of her right third DIP joint. Over the past 3 weeks, she had waxing and waning orientation, reduced energy, and reduced […]