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Abstract Number: 882
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63 year-old woman with a history of liver transplant presented to a rural hospital for evaluation of rigors, nausea and vomiting. Her post-transplant course had been complicated by HCV recurrence treated successfully with interferon and ribavirin; cirrhosis, and refractory gastric variceal bleeding for which she received a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) […]
Abstract Number: 897
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old male with PMH of atrial fibrillation s/p WATCHMAN device three years prior to presentation, CAD, and COPD presented to the emergency department with altered mental status, generalized weakness, and dysarthria for one day. He denied having any headache, nausea, vomiting, trauma, numbness, tingling, or palpitations. On physical exam, his vitals were […]
Abstract Number: 911
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 39 year old female presented on day 10, status post (s/p) laparoscopic gastric sleeve, with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and loose mucoid stools intermittently since surgery. She had history of rheumatoid arthritis, morbid obesity, with provoked lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) who had previous IVC filter and […]
Abstract Number: E28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: An unvaccinated 56-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, insulin dependent diabetes, sleep apnea, and obesity presented to the emergency department with complaints of dyspnea, cough, fevers, and diarrhea for the past 5 days. Initial work up was significant for COVID-19, a normal troponin level, elevated inflammatory markers, creatinine of 1.57, […]
Abstract Number: J45
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 51-year-old male with PMHx of tobacco abuse who presented to the emergency room (ER) with left flank pain for 1 month. He was involved in a motor vehicle collision while driving his motorcycle four weeks ago. He initially presented to an urgent care for pain where he was found […]
Abstract Number: L34
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 82-year-old male patient with a past medical history of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) and severe mitral regurgitation with repair presented at 6 weeks after bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement with a two-day history of sudden onset of dyspnea, that was associated with exertion and orthopnea. Vitals upon evaluation were as follows: Initial […]
Abstract Number: L39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 35-year-old man presented to ED with sudden onset weakness on left hand. He denied fever, dizziness, headache, and similar symptoms in the past. He doesn’t take any medication. He had upper respiratory symptoms two weeks ago and resolved. He has not received influenza and COVID-19 vaccine. Examination showed diminished power (4/5) in […]