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Search Results for Tick-borne
Abstract Number: 498
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A healthy 65-year-old male was admitted to the hospital for presumed COPD exacerbation and despite treatment developed hypoxic respiratory failure and shock, transferring to the intensive care unit (ICU) for further management.On arrival, he was tachycardic (120 BPM), BP 74/47 mmHg, febrile (39.0℃) and mechanically ventilated (RR 14) concerning for septic shock. Examination […]
Abstract Number: 539
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old female presented with three days of fever, chills, and generalized weakness. She also had myalgia, epigastric pain, darker urine. She reported no recent travel but reported spending time outside gardening and walking/hiking in the woods with dogs, although she did not recallany tick bites. She had a fever of 104 °F, […]
Abstract Number: 568
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with three weeks of intermittent fevers followed by 24-hours of persistent fever associated with nausea, fatigue, and malaise. She lived in the metro-Boston area and worked part-time as a dog-walker. She reported a tick bite several weeks ago. Vital signs were notable for […]
Abstract Number: 607
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 72 year old woman with osteoarthritis presented to with a 3-day history of fever and chills. A few days prior to presentation, she had received a glucocorticoid injection for left knee pain. Upon assessment of her initial vitals, heart rate was 122 bpm, blood pressure was 147/77 mmHg, respiratory rate was 22, […]
Abstract Number: 642
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old man who had been under quarantine for a week prior to presumed COVID-19 presented to the emergency department (ED) with worsening malaise, fever, and loss of appetite. Two weeks prior, the patient presented to his primary care provider (PCP) with fevers, dry cough, exertional dyspnea, sweats, malaise, anorexia, anosmia, and dysgeusia. […]
Abstract Number: 665
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 65 year old female with a history of type one diabetes presented to an outside hospital with malaise, fatigue, and fever for two weeks. Her social history was notable for frequently participating in the interactive game of Geocaching in the outdoors of southeastern PA. On arrival she had severe sepsis with a […]
Abstract Number: 690
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old woman presented with severe neck pain and high fevers starting three weeks after spending a weekend in Burlington, Wisconsin. She had a wide breadth of symptoms including Bell’s palsy, shooting leg pain, arm weakness, tinnitus, jaw tightness, feeling like she had “sand in her eye,” and episodes of mental lucidity with […]
Abstract Number: 710
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: The patient is a 72-year-old male with a medical history of gout and hypertension who presented from an outside hospital with diplopia and muscle cramps. Per patient report, he was sitting at home watching TV when he started noticing double vision, followed by a pressure sensation around his left eye. He did not […]
Abstract Number: 746
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 81-year-old male presented in July with two months of recurrent fevers. He was initially hospitalized in early May for LLQ pain, diarrhea, and imaging findings consistent with diverticulitis and a small pericolonic abscess. He was discharged on ciprofloxacin and metronidazole with outpatient colorectal surgery follow-up. He required subsequent admissions in late May […]
Abstract Number: 780
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 81-year old healthy male from Upstate New York without significant past medical history presented as a transfer from an outside hospital with a 5-6 day history of fevers, malaise, vague abdominal pain, and worsening confusion. There was no travel outside of the local area in the previous six months. The patient was […]