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Abstract Number: 465
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old Hispanic male with no significant past medical history presents with acute onset of headache, nausea, and vomiting for the past day, preceded by six months of progressively worsening peripheral vision and blurry vision in the right eye. Patient described a right-sided headache that became generalized and worsened within a few minutes […]
Abstract Number: 487
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman visiting from India with history of hypothyroidism and adrenal insufficiency presented with four days of profuse diarrhea and fever. She was admitted for sepsis secondary to Rotavirus gastroenteritis with initial sodium level 132 (135-145 mmol/L). On day 2 of hospitalization, sepsis resolved with isotonic fluids and stress dose steroids, but […]
Abstract Number: 488
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 75-year-old male presented to our institution with lethargy and unremitting headache of several weeks duration. His history was significant for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung status post lobectomy with recurrence 4 years later being treated with palliative radiation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and hypertension. He described his headache as daily, […]
Abstract Number: 569
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32 year old male presented with worsening headaches over several weeks. He had multiple previous visits to medical and psychiatric facilities often leaving against medical advice (AMA). On his last hospital visit, a large brain mass was discovered on imaging. However, he left AMA before work-up was complete. He was later brought […]
Abstract Number: 578
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man visited our hospital with complaints of malaise, appetite loss, diarrhea, and arthralgia, all of which he had experienced for 5 days before the visit. Although he had been previously healthy and fit, he had visited a different hospital one month earlier because of the sudden onset of a headache and […]
Abstract Number: 638
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 60 year old female with past medical history of chronic migraines presents with chief complaint of nausea and vomiting, with associated headache and malaise. She reports recent emergency room visit two weeks prior at an outside hospital for a “cold” with stomach pain. She was told she had a urinary tract infection […]
Abstract Number: 645
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old Japanese man was brought to our hospital because of a headache. He had noticed his headache and retroorbital pain four days before and they had been getting worse gradually. Subsequently, he noticed double vision and left drooping eyelid in the morning of the day before his first visit. He did not […]
Abstract Number: 785
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 72 yo male with history of cerebral artery aneurysm, COPD, and Stage 3 CKD presented to the hospital for elective angiography of a cerebral aneurysm. He developed PEA arrest in the preprocedural setting and ROSC was achieved after 5 minutes of CPR. Patients condition improved initially but prior to planned discharge he developed […]
Abstract Number: 851
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented with a severe headache which was posterior, waxing and waning in nature, and associated with nausea and vomiting. The headache started suddenly five days earlier and had awoken her from sleep. At that time she had presented to the emergency […]
Abstract Number: 900
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 71-year-old male with extensive smoking history was referred to the hospital by his PCP for new-onset severe hyponatremia of 117mMol/L. He denied any active complaints and initial physical examination showed an euvolemic male. Low serum osmolality of 245mOsm/kg but high urine osmolality of 309mOsm/kg and high urine sodium of 68mEq/L were suggestive of […]