Meeting
Abstract Number: 794
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Twenty-two-year-old female with history of asthma presented to Emergency Department with recurrent fevers (101-103F) and tachycardia since June 13, 2023. Patient saw her PCP on 6/10, for fever, tachycardia and abdominal pain and started on Cefdinir for possible sinusitis which she started taking yesterday. Patient had associated non-specific diffused abdominal pain, back pain, [...]
Abstract Number: 804
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old Japanese man without significant past medical history presented with one month of progressive malaise, fevers, chills, and swollen, painful lymph nodes on the right side of his neck. Prior to coming to our hospital, he was seen in an emergency department and was given a course of penicillin for presumed adenitis [...]
Abstract Number: 0968
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old woman from Ghana presented to the hospital with a week duration of myalgias, right-sided neck pain, and right-sided neck swelling that she noticed three days before the admission. Physical examination was only positive for non-pulsatile, mobile swelling in the right anterior lower neck along the sternocleidomastoid. Labs were unremarkable, except for [...]