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Search Results for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Abstract Number: 457
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old African-American female presented with two weeks of left neck swelling and fever. Over four months, she had noted fatigue, cough, night sweats, and an unintentional 12-pound weight loss. Two empiric courses of antibiotics effected no clinical change. She had no toxic habits and was sexually active with one male partner. […]
Abstract Number: 459
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: We present an unusual case of a previously healthy patient presenting with a demyelinating polyneuropathy, which was determined to be the initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).This was a 36 year-old female with an unremarkable past medical history who presented with leg weakness that progressively spread to her arms with associated tingling […]
Abstract Number: 470
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Cardiac involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is very common. Despite the relative frequency of pericarditis and pericardial effusions which occur in more than 50% of SLE patients, cardiac tamponade is rare and is seen in less than 3%. Additionally, there have been no consistent reliable predictors of tamponade development in such patients. We report […]
Abstract Number: 475
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 84 year old female with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) presented to the emergency department with fatigue and dizziness. She had recently been admitted to the same hospital with acute kidney injury secondary to lupus nephritis. During that admission, she was started on high dose prednisone, a […]
Abstract Number: 511
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old Caucasian female with history of mechanical aortic and mitral valves on chronic warfarin therapy, atrial fibrillation, and questionable history of SLE was admitted to the intensive care unit for emergent splenectomy following a motor vehicle accident. After initially being sent home from a regional hospital, she was diagnosed five days later […]
Abstract Number: 532
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old female with a history of hypertension presented to the emergency department with one week of lower extremity edema, nausea, and vomiting. On admission, the patient was found to be hyponatremic, hypoalbuminemic, with nephrotic range proteinuria (urine protein-to-creatinine ratio of 8.5 g/g) and acute kidney injury. During the hospital course, the patient’s […]
Abstract Number: 534
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old woman with history of lupus not on steroid or immunosuppressive therapy for more than 10 years presented with headache, generalized weakness, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and malaise. On exam, the patient was afebrile with tachycardia and hypotension. She was ill-appearing with a diffusely tender abdomen, mild hepatomegaly, and enlarged axillary and […]
Abstract Number: 587
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 42 year-old woman with history significant for systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) for 20 years complicated by pleurisy and thrombocytopenia on belimumab presented with a 10-day history of migratory polyarthritis. Her pain started in her left wrist, traveled to her right wrist one day later and then to her right shoulder after two […]
Abstract Number: 592
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: : A 34-year-old female with history of migrainous headaches presented with complains of sudden onset, throbbing type of headache radiating to the back of the ear. This was associated with sudden loss of vision in the right eye. She also mentioned night sweats and unintentional weight loss in the last couple of months. […]
Abstract Number: 602
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 28 year old Nepali female presented with convulsive activity and one week of progressive changes in behavior and mental acuity. She had polyarthralgia, painful cervical lymph nodes, malar rash, subjective fever, headaches, and fatigue for 2 months. Previous workup revealed positive antinuclear antibody (ANA), anti-ribonuclearprotein (RNP), and anti-Ro antibodies with no formal […]