Meeting
Abstract Number: 866
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man visited our hospital for lower extremity edema and involuntary weight loss. A routine check-up at his diabetes clinic five months earlier revealed anemia and an increased inflammatory response. His medical history included hypertension, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes. Computed tomography (CT), blood cultures, gastrointestinal endoscopy, and colonoscopy findings were unremarkable; [...]
Abstract Number: 0507
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: An 82-year-old male presented to the ED with fevers and shortness of breath. Two years prior, he was started on steroid therapy and intermittent tocilizumab for possible giant cell arteritis (GCA) given his complaints of jaw claudication, headache, elevated CRP and intermittent fevers; temporal artery biopsy was not conclusive for GCA. NM PET [...]