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Abstract Number: 7
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Skin, soft tissue, and joint infections are common in pediatric patients and can require invasive procedures to drain purulent fluid. Atypical pathogens (fungal and acid-fast bacilli [AFB]) are important but rare causes of these infections with reported case rates as low as 0.6-1.6 cases/100,000 a year. Despite the rarity of these infections, costly atypical […]
Abstract Number: 362
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: This presentation will describe a novel study started during a sabbatical year in Colombia. It will briefly cover logistics of taking a sabbatical year and then discuss the ongoing project and preliminary results. Dengue, a neglected tropical viral disease transmitted by the Aedes egypti mosquito, is endemic in Colombia and serves as an ideal […]
Abstract Number: 422
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: This is a 53-year-old Caucasian female with a history of hypertension, recent stroke, and obesity, who presented with chest pain. She had intermittent chest discomfort as a child and was told she had asthma; however, over the past few months, her chest pressure became more frequent and occurred both with activity and rest. […]
Abstract Number: 443
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 30 yo female without significant medical history presented to hospital complaining of facial swelling and dyspnea on exertion of 3 days duration. She described increasing fatigue, nausea and throat discomfort but denied diarrhea, cough, sputum production, fever, chills, rigors, sweats or abdominal pain. The patient had attributed her symptoms to contact with […]
Abstract Number: 452
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 67 year-old woman presented with acute cough, fever, and hypoxia. SARS-CoV2 testing was positive, and she was treated with dexamethasone and remdesivir. Over the next two days, her serum creatinine increased from 0.6 to 3.0 mg/dL, platelet count decreased from 281 to 48 k/L, and hemoglobin decreased from 13.1 to 11.3 g/dL. […]
Abstract Number: 468
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 49 year old Caucasian male was admitted to the hospital after suffering an outside hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. His electrocardiogram (EKG) showed findings of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) with giant T wave inversions in anterolateral leads (fig A). An Echocardiogram showed ejection fraction of 65-70% with moderate concentric LVH and […]
Abstract Number: 474
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old man presented to his primary care provider’s office but could not recall reason for his visit. Over the past year, there had been numerous instances of similar forgetfulness, oftentimes upon completing routine activity without additional symptomatology. Medical history was notable for factor V Leiden, hypothyroidism, and transient ischemic attacks. Physical examination […]
Abstract Number: 508
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old white male with a history of Factor V Leiden, deep vein thromboses (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), atrial fibrillation, and hyperthyroidism on warfarin therapy for 12 years presented to the emergency department (ED) with acutely worsening, bilateral, black, necrotic ulcerations of his lower extremities with associated edema, purpura, and progressive sloughing of […]
Abstract Number: 512
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old Vietnamese gentleman without a significant past medical history was admitted to the hospital after a mechanical fall. Apart from facial pain related to the fall, the patient did not report any other symptoms. He was afebrile and hemodynamically stable. His physical examination was unremarkable. During his trauma evaluation, bilateral apical pulmonary […]
Abstract Number: 516
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old woman with past medical history of Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) on daily mycophenolate mofetil and hydroxychloroquine, Antiphospholipid Syndrome on warfarin, history of aneurysm s/p clipping and diabetes presented to an urgent care clinic due to severe headache and dizziness. During examination, she was noted to have hesitancy with neck flexion, prompting […]