Meeting
Abstract Number: 619
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 30-year-old male with no previous medical history presented with acute abdominal pain of 3 days duration. He noted abdominal distention for several years that was more prominent secondary to recent intentional weight loss. He denied periorbital edema, leg edema, dyspnea, orthopnea or PND. Examination revealed a protuberant abdomen with dull percussion note in […]
Abstract Number: 731
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 91 year-old woman with congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic kidney disease, and morbid obesity was admitted with subacute shortness of breath. The patient’s CHF history was significant for no prior emergency department visits or hospitalizations attributed to CHF exacerbation. A recent transthoracic echocardiogram demonstrated moderate concentric left ventricular hypertrophy with a normal […]
Abstract Number: 880
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 30 year-old female presented postpartum day 1 following a normal vaginal delivery from an outside hospital after chest CT angiography (CTA) identified a 2.5 cm pericardial effusion. Review of systems was positive for dry cough, left sided chest pain, dyspnea on exertion, recent post-partum abdominal pain, chills, and diaphoresis. On arrival to […]