Meeting
Abstract Number: 861
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 53-year-old man with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, hypertension, and COPD presented to the emergency department (ED) with acute shortness of breath. Patient was in his usual state of health at home when he started having acute shortness of breath 1 hour prior without any chest pain. He denied any fevers, cough. He […]
Abstract Number: 1123
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Our patient is 56-year-old gentlemen with a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy related to prior alcohol use, hypertension and atrial fibrillation who presented to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain and subjective feeling of fever and chills of 3 days’ duration. He was found to be hypotensive (86/60 mmHg) […]