Meeting
Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old African American male patient with a past medical history of prostate cancer presented with progressive weakness, headache, and confusion. Free and total PSA levels were within normal limits. Brain MRI showed a 4.1×3.3×4.1 cm left frontal lesion at the surface of the left lateral ventricle with vasogenic edema and midline shift. […]
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 46 year-old woman presented with one week of palpitations and dyspnea on exertion. Her medical history was remarkable for a pericardial effusion of unknown etiology two months prior, treated with pericardiocentesis in Guyana. On presentation she was hemodynamically stable. Exam was significant for distant heart sounds and decreased breath sounds at the […]