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Abstract Number: 818
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male with a pituitary adenoma resected 6 months ago complicated by panhypopituitarism on oral hydrocortisone, presented to the ED with acute progressive altered mental status, headache, and fatigue. On the day of presentation, he became confused to the point where he could not dress himself. Vitals were significant for HR 98. […]
Abstract Number: 832
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Patient is a 37-year-old male with a history of HIV, Kaposi’s sarcoma, substance abuse, Hepatitis C, and heart failure. Patient was previously treated for cryptococcal meningitis, neurosyphilis, VZV encephalitis, and ESBL UTI. He presents to the hospital due to shortness of breath, facial pain, malaise, neck stiffness, and abdominal pain with bilious vomiting. […]
Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male with no significant past medical history was admitted with 10 days of persistent fevers, cough, shortness of breath that worsened with exertion, weight loss, nausea, and vomiting. The patient had no history of travel to any TB-endemic areas, was in a monogamous relationship with his wife, denied IVDU, and had […]
Abstract Number: 865
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 31-year-old female with diabetes mellitus, history of IV drug use on methadone, and untreated HCV infection presented with shortness of breath for one week. She developed a cough productive of green sputum with associated shortness of breath, subjective fevers, chills, pleuritic chest pain, nausea, and vomiting. One day prior to symptoms starting, […]
Abstract Number: 876
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old man with past medical history significant for tobacco, marijuana, and e-cigarette use presented to the emergency department for hemoptysis, dyspnea, cough with pleuritic chest pain, and subjective fevers. Twenty-four hours prior to presentation, the patient endorsed first-time use of a street-purchased e-cigarette cartridge containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The patient had acute […]
Abstract Number: 899
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 71-year-old male with multiple myeloma being treated with dexamethasone, elotuzumab and bortezomib, prior mediastinal plasmacytoma s/p chest radiation therapy and Crohn’s disease was admitted with high-grade fever, chills, productive cough. Labs revealed pancytopenia with neutrophil count of 1.2. Patient was started on broad-spectrum antibiotics for febrile neutropenia. IV Azithromycin was added to the […]
Abstract Number: 901
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old woman with a history of morbid obesity, cholecystectomy, and prior choledocholithiasis with placement of biliary stents presented with nausea, vomiting, rigors, and fever with epigastric pain radiating to her back. Cardiopulmonary, neurological, and skin exams were unremarkable. Initial laboratory studies showed a white blood cell count of 10.7 x 10^3/µL, AST […]
Abstract Number: 914
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 51-year-old female with a past medical history of end-stage renal disease on intermittent dialysis and a recent vitreous hemorrhage status post pars plana vitrectomy with endo-laser photocoagulation 2 days prior to admission, presented with post-operative severe bilateral eye pain, headaches, and fevers. She was diagnosed with acute angle-closure glaucoma in the left eye […]
Abstract Number: 932
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old Brazilian female who moved to the US in the 1990s with history of COPD, hypertension, and depression (treated 5 years ago with Seroquel) presented to the ER with 2 weeks of cough, diarrhea, and post-tussive emesis. The patient was febrile to 103 F, BP 96/58, tachycardic to 110, and hypoxic to […]
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 […]