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Abstract Number: 681
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old male presented to the emergency department after a witnessed episode of unresponsiveness, jerking motions, urinary incontinence and post-ictal confusion. The patient’s wife denied a history of epilepsy but reported several months of progressive dysarthria and gait ataxia, for which he had been evaluated nine months earlier. Work-up was negative for hemorrhage, […]
Abstract Number: 692
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 75-year-old male presented to the Emergency Room for progressive altered mental status, speech difficulty, and generalized weakness over several days. He also reported a couple days of polyuria and polydipsia. Past medical history included Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension. Initial vital signs were within normal limits. General physical exam was unremarkable, […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Hispanic man from Mexico, with a history of hypertension and obesity, presented in September to an outside hospital with high fevers. He worked as a truck driver primarily in Arizona. He had a witnessed seizure and developed persistent altered mental status. The patient rapidly decompensated into septic shock requiring vasopressors, and […]
Abstract Number: 709
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old woman woman presented after multiple episodes of seizure. She had no prior history of seizures or alcoholism. The patient had a deceased donor renal transplant 6 months prior complicated by persistent right perinephric fluid collection treated with long term piperacillin-tazobactam therapy. Attempts to obtain microbiology were unsuccessful and patient was started […]
Abstract Number: 716
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Autoimmune encephalitides comprise a rapidly evolving group of immune-mediated disorders characterized by inflammation of the brain parenchyma. Patients with this disorder manifest a wide spectrum of neurological and psychiatric presentations developing over days to months. One sub-type is anti-NMDAR-encephalitis, which is characterized by complex neuropsychiatric features and the presence of IgG antibodies against […]
Abstract Number: 726
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV-6) is a member of the herpesviridae family. HHV-6 is the causative agent in roseola infantum, a usually mild and self-limiting childhood exanthem. HHV-6 is also associated with a variety of syndromes in recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), including hepatitis, encephalitis, and bone marrow suppression. However, HHV-6 […]
Abstract Number: 763
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old female with anxiety and depression presented to the ED after seizure episode. Upon admission, the patient was hemodynamically stable with normal vital signs and laboratory analysis. Physical examination revealed an unresponsive, well-nourished female with her eyes closed, jaw clenched, and arms and legs rigidly extended, consistent with a dystonic episode. She […]
Abstract Number: 772
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Mr. R, a 52 year old man with history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in remission for 14 years, presented for an elective total laryngectomy. He was doing well post-operatively however had been experiencing uncontrolled anxiety for a few months that was previously controlled by sertraline 100mg. Therefore the medicine team recommended increasing his sertraline […]
Abstract Number: 805
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with history of hypothyroidism, Bipolar affective disorder, tobacco use disorder and old head trauma with face reconstruction in 2004 who presented with a first-time seizure. She was trying to quit smoking and was on bupropion to help quitting. She continued bupropion for about one month but was unable to quit […]
Abstract Number: 806
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 40 year old man was brought in by ambulance after having a 30 second tonic-clonic seizure witnessed by his mother. He was intubated on route to the hospital for airway protection. On arrival he was afebrile and hemodynamically stable. Neurological exam was notable for GCS of 8. Pupils were mildly anisocoric and […]