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Search Results for Pneumocystis
Abstract Number: 314
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Case presentationA 47 yo female with a history of hypertension, obesity, and prediabetes presented to the emergency department of a community hospital with a 2 week history of a nonproductive cough and generalized weakness. Her chest x-ray showed bilateral patchy airspace opacities. Chest CT PE protocol was negative for pulmonary embolus, but showed […]
Abstract Number: 451
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male with a history of renal transplant currently on immunosuppressive medication presents to the hospital with fevers and general malaise. Laboratory findings were significant for hypercalcemia (15.6 mg/dL) with suppressed parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Infectious investigation including urinalysis, chest x-ray, commuted tomography (CT) of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, blood cultures, […]
Abstract Number: 475
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 84 year old female with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) presented to the emergency department with fatigue and dizziness. She had recently been admitted to the same hospital with acute kidney injury secondary to lupus nephritis. During that admission, she was started on high dose prednisone, a […]
Abstract Number: 557
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old African American male presented to the emergency department due to chest pain, fevers and shortness of breath with associated dry cough. The symptoms progressively worsened since onset one month prior to admission. He was HIV negative with a history of Stage IV (T2a N2 M1a) lung adenocarcinoma diagnosed one year ago […]
Abstract Number: 680
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old woman with a remote history of renal transplant complicated by stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented to the emergency room with a week history of progressive fatigue, fever, dry cough and exertional dyspnea. Outpatient medications were tacrolimus 2.5mg BID, mycophenolate mofetil 500mg BID, prednisone 5mg daily, and vitamin D 1000 […]
Abstract Number: 729
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: 31-year-old man presented with two-weeks of shortness of breath to a New York City hospital in late-April 2020. Patient reported subjective fevers/chills and myalgias two weeks prior to presentation, eventually progressing to shortness of breath and a dry, non-productive cough. In the emergency department, he was noted to be in respiratory distress, saturating […]
Abstract Number: 990
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man with significant history of deceased donor transplant (18 months prior to presentation), hypertension, diabetes mellitus, who presented with two weeks of fevers and malaise. His other symptoms included drenching night sweats, shortness of breath, and diffuse pleuritic chest pain, however he denied cough. A recent exposure was a renovation of […]
Abstract Number: F33
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 71-year-old female with history of DM2, HTN, breast carcinoma in situ status post mastectomy, B-cell lymphoma (R-CHOP in 2016 & RT, currently in remission), autoimmune hepatitis related cirrhosis on Azathioprine presented to the hospital with a 4-day history of progressively worsening productive cough, mild hemoptysis, fever and shortness of breath. In the Emergency […]
Abstract Number: M26
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old man with a history of cryptogenic cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma status post liver transplant with donor positive for cytomegalovirus (CMV), and recent treated CMV reactivation, was transferred from a nearby hospital with acute hypoxic respiratory failure requiring intubation secondary to Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) identified on bronchoalveolar lavage. He was treated […]
Abstract Number: 1001
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old female was admitted with shortness of breath, cough and fevers. Her past medical history was significant for breast cancer undergoing active neoadjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. She was hypoxic requiring 2L of oxygen via nasal cannula and febrile to 39.0°C. Labs revealed a WBC of 12.0 x 109/L (4.5-11.0 x […]