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Abstract Number: 541
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 73 year-old Eritrean woman presented with one-month history of non-healing foot wound. While visiting Eritrea, she developed right foot edema, leading to splitting of the skin on the dorsal foot. This developed into a wound requiring hospitalization, debridement, and two week antibiotic course with ampicillin and ciprofloxacin in an Eritrean hospital. No organism […]
Abstract Number: 613
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: 52-year-old Caucasian male with no past medical history significant for history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia who presented to the hospital secondary to fever of 103 degrees and chills for 3 days. Patient reports that fever was sudden in onset and has been intermittent which breaks with sweating. His review of systems were positive […]
Abstract Number: 630
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man presented with acute on chronic cough, dyspnea, chills, and pleuritic chest pain. The patient had returned from Jerusalem four months prior, where he participated in multiple large religious gatherings. Since his travels, the patient also reported weight loss and decreased appetite, with months of cough and sneezing. Vitals included a […]
Abstract Number: 643
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 19-year old Caucasian female with a history of atopic dermatitis and mild asthma developed an erythematous maculopapular rash on her bilateral palms and wrists, right-sided tender cervical lymphadenopathy, and nightly fevers and headaches five days after returning from a one-month trip to Cambodia. She presented two weeks after returning from her trip […]
Abstract Number: 679
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man presents with a painful, erythematous lesion on his left thigh. He indicates that the lesion first appeared seven days ago and was followed by the onset fevers, chills, headaches, and body aches. The patient’s past medical history is notable for HIV on antiretroviral therapy with a recent CD4 count of […]
Abstract Number: 788
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: We present a case of a 49-year-old male with a history of hereditary thrombocytosis who presented to the Emergency Department with a 4-day history of intermittent fevers, headache, nausea, abdominal pain and one episode of emesis. The patient recently returned from travel to Yemen. He was not taking anti-malarial prophylaxis. Initial vital signs […]
Abstract Number: 831
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year old woman presented to our hospital with 5 days of fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain & debilitating leg pain. Her only known medical problem was hyperlipidemia, for which she had recently increased her statin dose. 6 weeks prior to admission, she visited her hometown in Jiangxi, China. There, she drank tap […]
Abstract Number: 837
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old man with recent travel to India presented with fevers, abdominal pain, and bloody stools. He was admitted two weeks prior to a hospital in India for fever and right upper quadrant pain where he was found to have elevated liver enzymes (ALT 569, AST 390, total bilirubin 9.9) in addition to […]
Abstract Number: 882
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old Nigerian American man with a history of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with metastases to the liver and spleen, developed large volume hematemesis while traveling in Nigeria, requiring stabilization at a local hospital. He received 13 units of blood and an upper endoscopy revealed gastric varices. Two weeks later, he presented to our […]
Abstract Number: 923
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male veteran with prostate cancer s/p prostatectomy in 2002 with positive margins, uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, untreated hepatitis C, 50-pack-year history, presented for admission after routine labs at his primary care physician’s office revealed prominent eosinophilia of 6,900 and hyponatremia. The patient’s main complaint was generalized pruritus and a one-month pruritic […]