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Abstract Number: 571
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 37 year-old man presented with altered mental status and a headache after a motor vehicle collision where he was a restrained driver while intoxicated with alcohol. He had a known history of glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD). Exam was notable for superficial abrasions on bilateral upper and lower extremities, diffuse generalized abdominal tenderness to […]
Abstract Number: 572
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 77-year-old female with no past medical history who presented with two weeks of dyspnea on exertion, scant hemoptysis, and rhinorrhea with occasional blood. Vitals showed tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoxia with saturations 95% on 15 L/min via heated high flow nasal cannula. Exam revealed accessory muscle use, faint bibasilar rales, […]
Abstract Number: 596
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 75 year old male was transferred into the ICU, already intubated, requiring antibiotics and pressors. He was hypotensive, tachypnic with respiratory distress, had severe oliguric AKI with serum creatinine of 6.0, and anemia with hemoglobin below 7.0. His initial CXR and CT showed scattered bilateral pulmonary opacities. After he did not improve […]
Abstract Number: 658
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A healthy 27 year-old woman G1P0 presented at 29 weeks gestation with three days of headaches, intermittent confusion, blurry vision, vomiting, and shortness of breath. Physical exam was remarkable for hypertension to 160/93, a Petechial rash on extremities without neurologic signs. CBC was notable for hemoglobin of 5.9, Platelets 11000 with many schistocytes. […]
Abstract Number: 756
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Case Presentation:A 36 year-old male with a history of HIV adequately controlled with Biktarvy and recent monkeypox infection presented with acute onset of rapidly ascending lower extremity paralysis. He presented to the ED for primary concern of severe left upper quadrant and back pain. He also noted bilateral lower extremity numbness below the […]
Abstract Number: 837
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male with a past medical history of urothelial carcinoma status post left nephrectomy began immunotherapy and was started on Atezolizumab. He developed bilateral lower extremity weakness that began following his first dose. After 3 doses, in 02/2022, his lower extremity weakness worsened to the point where he could not walk. A […]