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Abstract Number: 474
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 49 year-old man with a recent diagnosis of myasthenia gravis presented with 3 days of fever up to 103, rhinorrhea, frontal headache, mild lower extremity weakness, a mildly productive cough, and a leukocytosis to 16. As he had been started on prednisone and azathioprine 10 days prior to his presentation, he underwent […]
Abstract Number: 486
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 52-year-old male with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, sleep apnea, and osteomyelitis of the right great toe presented to the hospital with a 3-day history of fever and chills. Of note, patient had been admitted 3 weeks prior with a complaint of a right foot ulcer, […]
Abstract Number: 494
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old man presented with dyspnea, wheezing and productive cough. He was hypoxemic and a chest radiograph revealed a left lower lobe infiltrate and he was admitted with a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease exacerbation and pneumonia. His troponin was mildly elevated and he was started on a heparin infusion. The intravenous line infusing […]
Abstract Number: 531
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Adverse drug reactions are any injury that is a result of medication use and can be classified into two categories. Type A are reactions that are common and predictable. Type B are reactions that are rare and unpredictable. An 81-year-old woman with history of essential thrombocythemia presented with an intermittent, relapsing and remitting […]
Abstract Number: 535
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Patient is a 73-year-old female with history of hypertension, chronic back pain on gabapentin, prior intravenous drug use, peripheral artery disease status post bilateral femoral endarterectomies with stenting on dual anti-platelet therapy who presented to the emergency department with right lower extremity pain. Patient was hemodynamically stable, alert and oriented. Shortly after undergoing […]
Abstract Number: 552
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Teriflunomide is a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor used in management of Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS). Leflunomide is the active agent which has been used in rheumatoid arthritis. Chronic diarrhea has been associated with both of these. However, there is no evidence in literature to suggest clostridium difficile (C.Diff) diarrhea associated with these agents. […]
Abstract Number: 571
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 45 yo woman with alcohol use, liver cirrhosis, hepatic encephalopathy and recurrent abdominal ascites, presented to hospital with decreased urine output and abdominal swelling. She was found to have severe acute renal failure and was treated for suspected hepatorenal syndrome with intravenous albumin infusion. She did not recover renal function and required […]
Abstract Number: 576
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male presents with a morbilliform rash on his extremities, trunk, and back. One week prior, he started sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim for cellulitis. On his sixth day of treatment, the patient became acutely febrile to 102°F, with rash eruption one day later. Therefore, he presented to the hospital for further evaluation. On arrival, he […]
Abstract Number: 580
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Our patient was a 58 year old male with a history of metastatic melanoma on nivolumab and ipilimumab who was directly admitted from clinic to the medicine service for increased lethargy and flu-like symptoms. The patient described a one week history of fevers/chills, headache, muscle ache, and malaise; as well as nausea, vomiting, […]
Abstract Number: 625
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 57 year old male with HIV/AIDS was transferred to our hospital for acute onset of lethargy and incoherent speech. He intially presented with a few weeks of headaches, slurred speech, and intermittent confusion, and was diagnosed with toxoplasmosis. He was started on atovaquone and sulfadiazine for taxoplasmosis and levetiracetam for seizure prophylaxis, […]