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Abstract Number: 495
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 19-Year-old ,African American, female with significant medical history of hypertension, Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus, presents with chest pain for 24 hr. Pain was sub-sternal, pressure like,7/10,radiating to right arm and in between the shoulder blades, persistent ,precipitated by drinking alcohol the night before ,associated with Shortness of breath and palpitations. Patient had a history […]
Abstract Number: 716
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 25-year-old male with a past medical history of von Willebrand disease, thrombocytosis presented to an outside hospital (OSH) with acute onset chest pain. An EKG there showed ST-segment elevation in anterior leads after which he was emergently taken to the cardiac catheterization laboratory. He was found to have an left anterior descending (LAD) […]
Abstract Number: 802
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 60 year old female was admitted for rapid cognitive and functional decline over 6 weeks. Three months prior, she ceased working as an OR nurse due to depression and emotional outbursts and was being treated by an outpatient psychiatrist for depression. On presentation she was aphasic, echolalic and apraxic with notable outstretched […]
Abstract Number: B41
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old female with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and SLE presented with acute substernal tightness associated with nausea and vomiting. She denied fever, chills, diaphoresis, or palpitations. Her EKG showed sinus rhythm with new T wave inversions in anterior leads. Troponin elevation was noted with a peak of 4.48. Echocardiogram showed normal […]
Abstract Number: L45
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old man with a past medical history of intravenous drug use and morbid obesity presented with worsening bilateral lower leg pain and swelling. The patient reported chronic bilateral leg edema after a car accident a year before and started noticing skin changes with multiple bumps on his legs for several months. He […]
Plenary Presentations
Abstract Number: PL2
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 can clinically deteriorate in the second week of illness after a period of initial stability. Thus, an important clinical question is determining when it is safe to discharge these patients from the hospital without overwhelming hospitals’ capacities. Unfortunately, discharge criteria for COVID-19 patients are often based on expert opinion, with […]