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Abstract Number: 516
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 20-year-old male with past history of asthma presented initially with bloody diarrhea and subjective fever of one day’s duration. Upon evaluation vital signs revealed temperature of 103 F, and tachycardia. On physical examination there was generalized abdominal tenderness with normal bowel sounds. Thrombocytopenia was present with platelet count of 46 k/ul. Antibiotics […]
Abstract Number: 520
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 90-year old female with a medical history of atrial fibrillation, CAD and COPD presented with progressively worsening abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting for the past 3 weeks, which had acutely worsened over the past 1 week. She described the pain as epigastric with radiation to her right flank. Symptoms were aggravated on […]
Abstract Number: 526
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A fifty year old female with no significant past medical history presented with one year of acute on chronic bilateral periorbital swelling and twenty pound unintentional weight loss. She also complained of xerostomia and keratoconjunctivitis sicca. Review of systems was positive for intermittent nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, pruritis, and neck swelling. The patient […]
Abstract Number: 529
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and dyslipidemia presented with a 2-day history of nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain. Two years earlier, she had an episode of pancreatitis secondary to hypertriglyceridemia (HTG; 1120 mg/dL), which was treated with gemfibrozil and atorvastatin. Her family history was significant for hyperlipidemia and type […]
Abstract Number: 530
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 80 year-old female presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath and melena. She was afebrile, with blood pressure of 121/70 and heart rate 93. Labs showed hemoglobin of 5.2 g/dL with normal INR and platelet count. She underwent an upper endoscopy revealing a 2 mm clean-based duodenal ulcer. As this […]
Abstract Number: 533
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 37 year old male with a history of asthma presented with a three day history of acute onset left upper quadrant (LUQ) abdominal pain, worse after meals and associated with nausea. He had no history of cholelithiasis, alcohol abuse or trauma. Vital signs on admission were in normal range. Exam revealed LUQ […]
Abstract Number: 539
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old man with a past medical history of gout and chronic pancreatitis complicated by pseudocyst presented with bilateral lower leg swelling, erythema, and pain for few weeks. The rash was also associated with bilateral lower extremity nodules that would spontaneously open and discharge white material. He was seen and treated in the […]
Abstract Number: 545
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is a case of a 22 year old female with history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) complicated by lupus nephritis class III/IV, immune thrombocytopenia, coombs positive anemia, discoid lupus & seizures, who presented to the ED with a 2 week history of feeling “unwell” and a 1 week history of epigastric pain […]
Abstract Number: 564
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old female recently started on doxycycline for acne presented to our institution with epigastric pain. On the third day of doxycycline initiation, the patient began feeling nauseous with progressively worsening pain. The pain was localized to the epigastrium, described as sharp, stabbing, radiating to her back, and rated as severe. The patient […]
Abstract Number: 564
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old female with a past medical history of recurrent pancreatitis, heart failure with recovered ejection fraction, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia presented with acute-onset abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Her history was notable for no alcohol use, a prior cholecystectomy, and an episode of pancreatitis with an unclear cause several months […]