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Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 74 year old, non-diabetic Singaporean male was hospitalized following 3 weeks of left iliac fossa pain. Computed tomography showed marked mural thickening and enhancement of descending and sigmoid colon with extensive pericolic and omental fat stranding. Ill-defined pulmonary nodules were also seen. He was treated for colitis but deteriorated with shock and […]
Abstract Number: 537
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male from Guatemala with a history of alcohol abuse, brief incarceration and nephrolithiasis presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. He was found to have a psoas abscess and subsequently underwent radiologic aspiration and drainage of the lesion. Given the unusual intraosseous features on imaging, the patient […]
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: 560
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old previously healthy male was referred from another hospital with fever, dry cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea for about one month. He also had unintentional weight loss of 33 lbs and abdominal distention over 2 months. He was originally from Nigeria and had moved to Japan 10 years ago. A physical exam […]
Abstract Number: 561
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic man with poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus complicated by nephropathy presented to a hospital with 2 weeks of nausea, vomiting, and progressive lethargy. During the initial evaluation, he developed a focal right-sided seizure advancing to a generalized tonic-clonic seizure lasting 30 seconds. He was afebrile, hypertensive, and non-tachycardic with normal saturation on […]
Abstract Number: 567
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old Honduran male with no past medical history presented with two weeks of recurrent fevers, dyspnea, bilateral blurred vision, and pain in his low back, flank, and abdomen. Chest X-ray revealed a round opacity over the right lower lung. CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis showed patchy consolidation in the right lower lobe […]
Abstract Number: 580
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 26 year-old Ecuadorian woman presented with 3 months of enlarging neck masses. A few years prior to presentation, she noticed small lumps on the right side of her neck, which were stable and asymptomatic until 3 months prior to arrival, when they began to grow in size and became painful. These symptoms […]
Abstract Number: 604
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old African male with no medical history presented to the emergency department with chronic, intermittent epigastric abdominal pain. Physical exam revealed a diminished left radial pulse but was otherwise unremarkable. Labs were notable for an elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) to 23.7 mg/L (normal
Abstract Number: 605
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 52 year-old man with PMH of HIV presented with inguinal lymphadenopathy, intermittent abdominal pain, suprapubic fullness, fever and poor urine production for several days. Bladder catheterization yielded a large volume of bloody urine. The patient had not experienced hematuria previously and had no history of urinary retention, urgency, perineal or GU trauma. […]
Abstract Number: 611
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 53y/o Hispanic woman with a history of cervical cancer in 2001 s/p treatment now in remission, HTN, and a recent diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis in 5/2023 on treatment with Infliximab who presented with recurrent fevers, diarrhea, and abdominal pain in the setting of new ascites for the past several weeks. Patient had previously […]