Meeting
Abstract Number: 520
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 90-year old female with a medical history of atrial fibrillation, CAD and COPD presented with progressively worsening abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting for the past 3 weeks, which had acutely worsened over the past 1 week. She described the pain as epigastric with radiation to her right flank. Symptoms were aggravated on […]
Abstract Number: 564
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old female recently started on doxycycline for acne presented to our institution with epigastric pain. On the third day of doxycycline initiation, the patient began feeling nauseous with progressively worsening pain. The pain was localized to the epigastrium, described as sharp, stabbing, radiating to her back, and rated as severe. The patient […]
Abstract Number: 938
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is a 46-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia who presented with acute worsening abdominal pain for two days, along with nausea, vomiting and anorexia. The patient had polyuria and polydipsia but denied dysuria, diarrhea, fevers or chills. He had no personal or family history of pancreatitis, gallstones, or […]