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Abstract Number: 634
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Twenty three year old female presented with complaints of severe headache and dizziness since past 2 weeks. Her past medical history was significant for SLE, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and lupus pericarditis. CT head showed possible left cerebellar stroke of indeterminate age and hence was admitted for the stroke workup. Few […]
Abstract Number: 641
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73 year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus (hemoglobin A1c 7.5), hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic renal failure stage 3a, and a distant 10 pack year smoking history presented with 2 weeks of substernal chest tightness and dyspnea on exertion. He was hemodynamically stable without tachypnea at rest. Examination revealed a grade 2/6 holosystolic […]
Abstract Number: 686
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old man with inconsistently treated HIV infection presented with a progressive cough, dyspnea, and pleuritic chest pain over a two-week period which were associated with fevers, chills, night sweats, and a 40-pound weight loss. He emigrated from Mexico 10 years prior and had traveled to the central valley of California. On physical […]
Abstract Number: 702
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: The patient is a 59-year-old male with chronic heart failure found to have cardiac sarcoidosis and subsequently treated inpatient with high-dose steroids. In addition, computed tomography imaging revealed pulmonary nodules. Due to a suspected infection, empirical antibiotics and antifungals were administered, however, treatment failed to clear the nodules. Further, weeks of antibiotic therapy […]
Abstract Number: 724
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 62 year-old female with a history of intracranial hemangiopericytoma admitted to the ICU with altered mental status due to profound hypoglycemia. She was previously diagnosed six years prior with intracranial hemangiopericytoma and treated with resection and stereotactic radiosurgery. The tumor recurred locally three years later and she underwent additional resection. She denied a […]
Abstract Number: 725
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation on apixaban and panhypopituitarism secondary to resection of a pituitary adenoma in the 1980s presented to our hospital for chest pain. His recent history is notable for recurrent cystitis and Clostridium difficile infections requiring stress-doses of glucocorticoids; his endocrinologist had been attempting to taper […]
Abstract Number: 731
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old African American woman presented with complaints of headache, blurred vision, and progressive bilateral leg swelling for the past week. This was her 4th visit to the hospital in 4 months with similar complaints. Medical history was significant for 10 years of refractory hypertension, many no-show visits, consequent chronic kidney disease stage IV, […]
Abstract Number: 740
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 30 year old M truck driver with a history of herniated disc was referred to the emergency room (ER) by an infectious disease specialist for elevated eosinophils (12.96 K/uL), chest pain (CP) and tachycardia. The patient complained of pleuritic left sided CP without shortness of breath or hemoptysis. Six weeks prior to […]
Abstract Number: 748
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 86-year-old male patient with a history of hypertension and newly diagnosed stage 2 prostate cancer was referred from the cancer center due to a hypertensive emergency following the administration of a leuprolide injection. Shortly after receiving the first leuprolide injection, the patient experienced facial flushing, ocular pain, a sensation of eyes bulging […]
Abstract Number: 859
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 59 year old female with a history of Hepatitis C cirrhosis, esophageal varices, type 2 diabetes mellitus, end-stage renal disease, and hypertension presented to the emergency department to be evaluated for fever at the behest of her dialysis center. She endorsed chills, diffuse abdominal pain, and dyspnea over the past week. She […]