Meeting
Abstract Number: 333
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Patients (pts) with congestive heart failure (CHF) are at an increased risk for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) [1]. Moreover, CABP itself and macrolide antibiotics, which current guidelines recommend for CABP treatment [2], are both associated with increased risk of cardiac events, including worsening heart failure [3,4]. Lefamulin (LEF) is a first-in-class systemic pleuromutilin antibiotic […]
Abstract Number: 363
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Clostroidiodes difficile (CD) is the most prevalent hospital-acquired infection in the United States, accounting for approximately 224,000 infections with 13,000 deaths and over 1 billion dollars spent in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clostroidiodes difficile accounts for 10-20% of diarrhea in the setting of recent antibiotics exposure.In St […]
Abstract Number: 702
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 54-year old female was hospitalized for 3-week history of abdominal pain, chills, nausea and diarrhea. Her past medical history was significant for multiple self-reported antibiotic allergies, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass complicated by gastrojejunostomy leak, and prior perisplenic abscess requiring percutaneous drainage. On admission, blood pressure was 137/79, heart rate of 80, respirations 20, […]