Meeting
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis […]
Abstract Number: 646
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 54 yo White Male with PMH of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) presented with right-sided focal neurological deficits, word finding difficulties, confusion and headache. He was treated for a brain abscess with surgical resection and antibiotics X 1 month at an OSH attributed to recently sustained head trauma. Follow up MRI 1 month later, […]
Abstract Number: 907
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 23 year-old woman presenting with left thigh pain and erythema. Reported rapid onset of pain in left upper thigh and buttock one day prior to admission with no associated fever or chills and no recent trauma to the area. Stated she had had similar symptoms in the same distribution twice over the last […]
Abstract Number: 925
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: IntroductionDizziness is one of the most frequent complaints encountered in the medical practice affecting 15-20% of adults yearly 1, and can be challenging to assess. Dizziness can be classified into vertigo, disequilibrium and syncope. Most patients use dizziness as a non-specific term, and thus suffer prejudice from the physicians’ end and can be […]