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Search Results for Thrombus
Abstract Number: 103
SHM Converge 2023
Background: D-dimer is clinically useful for its high sensitivity and negative predictive value as a useful “rule out” test for venous thromboembolism. Nevertheless, the D-dimer assay is not specific and often elevated in states of systemic inflammation or illness.Stasis of blood flow, Endothelial injury, and hypercoagulability are the tenets of thrombus formation. When any one […]
Abstract Number: 362
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 43 year-old man with history of alcohol abuse presented with progressive shortness of breath. He was found with severe pneumonia and subsequently developed cardiac arrest. Initial EKG suggested anteroseptal infarct, age undetermined; troponin was elevated with a peak of 0.188 ng/mL (normal <0.031 ng/mL). A left heart catheterization (LHC) revealed non-obstructive coronary […]
Abstract Number: 418
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: This is a 21 year old male with no significant past medical history presenting with shortness of breath and fever. Five days prior to presentation, he noted sore throat, fevers, and heart burn so he presented to an acute care clinic. He had a positive rapid strep screen, so he was given azithromycin […]
Abstract Number: 489
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 68 year-old female with history of abdominal hysterectomy complicated by post-operative lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and prophylactic inferior vena cava (IVC) filter placed prior to past knee replacement surgery now presenting to the hospital with severe right lower extremity pain and swelling impairing her ability to ambulate. On physical exam, […]
Abstract Number: 540
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old male with past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary and peripheral arterial disease, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, history of peripheral arterial embolism, history of stroke, vascular dementia and hypertension who presented with sudden onset of shortness of breath associated with cough and chest pain for one day. […]
Abstract Number: 586
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old female with a past medical history of chronic pulmonary emboli, left ventricular heart failure, and hypertension presented with shortness of breath on exertion and bilateral lower extremity edema for one week. On examination, she was found to have jugular venous distention, crackles in bilateral lung bases, and 3+ pitting peripheral edema. […]
Abstract Number: 644
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 35-year-old male with a history of hypertension who was transferred from an outside hospital (OSH) for renal vein, and inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis. A month prior to presentation to the OSH, he had developed acute, right-sided flank pain with nausea. At the OSH, he was diagnosed with nephrolithiasis, […]
Abstract Number: 663
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of anorexia, fever, and a rash after returning from a trip to Colorado. Additionally, he endorsed an 8-pound weight gain and dyspnea on exertion.Upon presentation, he was febrile, tachycardic and had a diffuse targetoid rash […]
Abstract Number: 665
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old Caucasian lady with metabolic syndrome and hypertension presented with a sudden onset 10/10 right lower extremity pain associated with numbness and inability to ambulate. Vital signs were stable. On examination, her right lower extremity was pale, cold and pulseless. Her laboratory tests including hypercoagulable workup were normal. A CT aortogram with […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Introduction: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is classically associated with the triad of abdominal pain, hematuria, and a palpable mass, but its variability in clinical presentation has earned it the label of “internist’s tumor” (1,2). Liver dysfunction has been observed as a result of metastatic disease and a non-metastatic paraneoplastic syndrome called Stauffer’s syndrome […]