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Search Results for Rickettsia
Abstract Number: 615
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old man presented with fever and malaise for two weeks associated with chills, non-bloody diarrhea, and unintentional weight loss of 8 lbs. He tested positive for influenza-A two weeks prior to presentation and was started on Oseltamivir by his primary care physician, without symptomatic improvement. There was no recent history of sick […]
Abstract Number: 620
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: 53 year old male with a history of alcohol abuse presented to the ED with hyponatremia and elevated LFTs after a week of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The patient had a previous drinking history of a 12-pack of beer per day, denied IV drug use and any recent travel outside of Texas. Determined […]
Abstract Number: 679
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man presents with a painful, erythematous lesion on his left thigh. He indicates that the lesion first appeared seven days ago and was followed by the onset fevers, chills, headaches, and body aches. The patient’s past medical history is notable for HIV on antiretroviral therapy with a recent CD4 count of […]
Abstract Number: 690
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old woman presented with severe neck pain and high fevers starting three weeks after spending a weekend in Burlington, Wisconsin. She had a wide breadth of symptoms including Bell’s palsy, shooting leg pain, arm weakness, tinnitus, jaw tightness, feeling like she had “sand in her eye,” and episodes of mental lucidity with […]