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Abstract Number: 340
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 90-year-old man with a history of left upper lobe pulmonary nodule on prior imaging presented with dark tarry stools, fatigue and syncope. He had not had an EGD or colonoscopy done in about 10 yrs. Five months prior to this presentation, a 2.4 cm left upper lobe pulmonary nodule suspicious for neoplasm […]
Abstract Number: 428
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Introduction: Tracheal tumors commonly arise as metastasis from neighboring thyroid, esophageal, laryngeal or lung tumors. Primary tracheal tumors are extremely rare with an incidence of 1 in 1,000,000 persons per year. Often presenting with non-specific symptoms, diagnosis is difficult. Case Report: A 59-year-old Caucasian male with a history of marijuana abuse, arterial thrombosis, […]
Abstract Number: 488
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 75-year-old male presented to our institution with lethargy and unremitting headache of several weeks duration. His history was significant for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung status post lobectomy with recurrence 4 years later being treated with palliative radiation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and hypertension. He described his headache as daily, […]
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 27-year-old male presented with one year history of nonproductive cough and a 4 week history of expiratory wheezing, dyspnea on exertion, facial swelling and episodic hemoptysis. Past medical history was significant for fatigue, insomnia and headaches. Social history was significant for minimal tobacco use, occasional alcohol consumption, prior use of marijuana and […]
Abstract Number: 583
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency department with progressively worsening pain, erythema, and swelling of the left hallux after trauma resulting in loss of the nail bed one month prior to presentation. He developed a dorsal wound with purulent green discharge and an inability to bear weight. He denied other complaints. […]
Abstract Number: 683
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old Caucasian man presented with a verrucose mass growing in the palm of his left hand. A biopsy revealed squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The mass was resected completely, but a year later it had regrown to the size of a golf ball. The patient presented to the ED with swelling and pain […]
Abstract Number: 689
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 53 year old man with a history of stage III squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the esophagus (pT3N3) was admitted for dysphagia and found to have a mandibular mass and a painful finger nodule. The patient initially presented to an outside hospital four months prior with dysphagia and weight loss. He was […]
Abstract Number: 697
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: This is the case of a 77-year-old male who was treated for endocarditis that seeded from a chronic upper extremity wound. The patient had a history of chronic atrial fibrillation and was status post placement of an AICD pacemaker. He initially presented to a community hospital with altered mental status and was found […]
Abstract Number: 1123
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Our patient is 56-year-old gentlemen with a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy related to prior alcohol use, hypertension and atrial fibrillation who presented to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain and subjective feeling of fever and chills of 3 days’ duration. He was found to be hypotensive (86/60 mmHg) […]