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Abstract Number: 432
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, polysubstance abuse, and perforated appendicitis presented to the emergency department for one-week right lower quadrant abdominal pain. Of note, two-years prior, the patient had one-day of similar pain associated with nausea and emesis. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and […]
Abstract Number: 582
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Ectopic Liver is generally observed intra-abdominally, its extension supra-diaphragmatically is a rare occurrence. There are only 23 such reported cases in literature with the majority being reported in younger age groups as an extension of the caudate lobe of the liver through a diaphragmatic hernia(1,2). However, the presentation of an ectopic liver as […]
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: 629
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is a 49 year old female, with no significant medical history, who started having intermittent fevers, night sweats, and fatigue 11 months prior. She reported a temperature of 100.4°F with cough and rhinorrhea, diagnosed as bronchitis with an elevated CRP of 40 mg/L. She reported some improvement with azithromycin but continued to […]
Abstract Number: F46
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 50 year-old female with a past medical history of migraines on triptan therapy presented to an outside ED with a 1 day history of chest pain and was transported emergently to a tertiary hospital for suspected STEMI. She had a troponin of < 0.012 with inferior ST elevations on ECG. STEMI was […]
Abstract Number: N31
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 49-year-old male with a history of OSA on CPAP, Parkinson’s disease, hyperlipidemia, and obesity presented to the emergency department with a three-week history of progressive dyspnea on exertion (DOE) and abdominal pain on exertion that radiated into his chest, neck, and jaw that resolved after rest. He had an intentional 50-lb weight […]