Meeting
Abstract Number: F28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with an episode of bifrontal and retro-orbital headache, left-sided upper extremity and facial numbness, generalized weakness, and dysarthria. The patient reported similar symptoms one week prior to presentation that lasted 12 hours, and which were accompanied by syncope. Over the past month, the patient […]
Abstract Number: 1003
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: We report a 32 yr old HIV positive lady who presented with acute onset right thoracic multi-dermatomal herpes zoster and ipsilateral upper and lower limb weakness. She had been on HAART since 2002 but stopped her medications for few months prior to presentation. Her examination was significant for right side localized vesicular rash […]
Abstract Number: 1005
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male with a recently diagnosed HIV infection presented to the hospital with dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain and fatigue for 4 days. Six weeks prior, he was found to have HIV infection with a CD4+ cell count of 17 cells/ul and an HIV viral load of 41,399 copies/mL. He was prescribed antiretroviral […]