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Search Results for Rituximab
Abstract Number: 395
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 73 year old female with borderline diabetes mellitus and hypertension presented to the emergency department with the sudden onset of nontraumatic swelling, pain and ecchymosis of her right leg. She did report receiving an influenza vaccination at her left arm 3 weeks prior to this visit resulting in bruising from her shoulder […]
Abstract Number: 550
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis who received 6-monthly maintenance Rituxan infusions, developed COVID-19 and was hospitalized with acute hypoxic respiratory failure. She was treated with 5 days of Remdesivir and discharged with 3L supplemental oxygen to complete a 10-day course of Dexamethasone. She didn’t improve to baseline and was re-hospitalized with progressively […]
Abstract Number: 572
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 77-year-old female with no past medical history who presented with two weeks of dyspnea on exertion, scant hemoptysis, and rhinorrhea with occasional blood. Vitals showed tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoxia with saturations 95% on 15 L/min via heated high flow nasal cannula. Exam revealed accessory muscle use, faint bibasilar rales, […]
Abstract Number: 595
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old Caucasian male with a history of stage IV follicular lymphoma treated with rituximab and bendamustine presented with generalized malaise, weakness, and acute encephalopathy of two weeks.He was hypotensive and his exam showed dry mucous membranes and poor skin turgor. Laboratory examination was remarkable for: creatinine 7.6 mg/dL, AST and ALT 691 […]
Abstract Number: 691
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 20-year-old man with untreated HIV was admitted due to severe thrombocytopenia. He reported diarrhea, episodes of epistaxis and hemoptysis, night sweats and weight loss for past 3 months. Physical exam was significant for scattered, brown papules and plaques on all extremities. CD4 count was > 400 cells/mm3. CT scan of chest showed […]
Abstract Number: 715
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 62-year-old man with recent hospitalization for septic shock due to toe osteomyelitis,complicated by severe C. difficile infection requiring fecal transplant 3 weeks prior to admission,presenting with confusion,right-sided weakness,and ataxia.Symptoms were first noted 2 weeks after the fecal transplant and consisted of depressed mood and right shoulder weakness.Neurological exam was notable for neglect of […]
Abstract Number: 737
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 74 year old male with a history of atrial fibrillation on rivaroxaban was admitted to an outside hospital with a spontaneous right gluteus medius and piriformis intramuscular hematoma measuring 5.8 cm found on computerized tomography (CT). On admission, he had a hemoglobin of 7.7 gm/dL, an elevated activated partial thromboplastin time not […]
Abstract Number: 834
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old Japanese woman with no significant medical history presented to a primary care physician with a four-week history of fever and coughing. She had also developed fatigue and peripheral edema and was therefore admitted to another hospital. On presentation, her body temperature was 37.5℃, pulse was 98 beats per minute, blood pressure […]
Abstract Number: 845
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old G2P2 woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that has been serologically and clinically quiescent for 15 years, lupus nephritis at 25-years-old that was treated with cyclophosphamide, and HELLP syndrome during her first pregnancy, presented with fatigue and dyspnea one month after her second son was delivered via C-section. […]
Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 63M with severe primary closed angle glaucoma, DMII, pemphigus vulgaris (PV) presents to ED with skin lesions over most body. Functional status impaired due to lower extremity edema, oral lesions resulting in odynophagia and malnutrition. PV recently diagnosed via skin biopsy on H&E stain without immunofluorescence following new blisters beginning on tongue, hard […]