Meeting
Abstract Number: 496
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: 61-year-old Caucasian male with a medical history significant for tobacco use disorder, and hypothyroidism presented to the emergency department (ED) with a two-week history of pain, numbness, and sensation of coolness affecting the inner aspect of right wrist/hand, fourth and fifth fingers unable to do his job as a house contractor. The symptoms […]
Abstract Number: 632
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 87 year old woman with a medical history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, raynaud’s syndrome, sicca syndrome and hyperlipidemia was brought in after choking on food. Her hospital course was complicated by a brief episode of respiratory failure requiring intubation, central line placement, aspiration pneumonia, CHF exacerbation, lower GI bleed, lumbar […]
Abstract Number: P32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: We present a case of rapidly progressive Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (HES), a possible late complication of Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19). A previously healthy 48-yr old male recovered from COVID-19 approximately 30 days before symptom onset. He had fevers, chills, diffuse abdominal pain with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea with diffuse erythematous pruritic rash and Raynaud’s phenomenon (Image […]