Meeting
Abstract Number: 482
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: This is an 84-year old Caucasian man with a past medical history of hypercholesterinemia who developed dry cough, mild shortness of breath, generalized weakness, and fever 13 days prior to the presentation. Three days after onset, he was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus. His shortness of breath continued to worsen, and the patient […]
Abstract Number: 852
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 33 yo Caucasian female with a PMH of Graves’ thyrotoxicosis and recurrent acute pancreatitis was admitted for suspected pancreatitis. She presented with acute onset epigastric pain radiating to back. She denied any associated symptoms. Exam showed yellowish discoloration of skin and epigastric tenderness. Recent ultrasound was negative for cholelithiasis or gallbladder wall thickening […]
Abstract Number: 923
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male veteran with prostate cancer s/p prostatectomy in 2002 with positive margins, uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, untreated hepatitis C, 50-pack-year history, presented for admission after routine labs at his primary care physician’s office revealed prominent eosinophilia of 6,900 and hyponatremia. The patient’s main complaint was generalized pruritus and a one-month pruritic […]