Meeting
Abstract Number: 489
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old South Asian woman with history of IgA nephropathy complicated by end stage renal disease status post renal transplant (CMV/EBV positive), latent tuberculosis infection, C. Diff colitis, and recurrent urinary tract infections presented with two days of fevers and diarrhea. One week prior to admission she was seen at a local ED [...]
Abstract Number: 490
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old man with history of treatment-resistant tumefactive multiple sclerosis (MS) on plasmapheresis presented with a sore throat and persistent fevers for 2 days. His wife recently also had a mild cough and viral conjunctivitis. He was noted to have a temperature of 103.2 F, heart rate of 135, and oxygen saturation of [...]
Abstract Number: 0520
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: Patient is a 96 year-old male with significant medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism, prior left thalamic and internal capsule stroke, shingles, and bilateral blindness who resides in a skilled facility presenting with unsteady gait and garbled speech. Patient presented to an outside hospital on 10/3/2024 for aphasia, dysphagia and right-sided weakness, in [...]