Meeting
Abstract Number: 600
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 51 year old male with history of obesity, spinal stenosis, and gout presented with 1 week of worsening low back pain with bilateral radiculopathy. He had no bladder or bowel incontinence, or other neurologic compromise. He was afebrile, with normal vital signs. Lab data was significant for WBC 25 x 10^9/L, hemoglobin […]
Abstract Number: 893
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 59 year-old woman with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis presented with altered mental status and a suprapatellar abscess. Following irrigation and debridement, her course was complicated by septic shock. She was found with high-grade methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and her blood cultures ultimately sterilized with IV cefazolin therapy. […]