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Abstract Number: 407
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old healthy woman with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with generalized purpura and petechiae. She also reported 4 month long history of painless right-sided neck swelling, drenching night sweat and unintentional significant weight loss. Her examination revealed bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly. Labs showed platelets of 5 K/UL […]
Abstract Number: 433
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67 year old woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis. She underwent elective cholecystectomy, complicated by Clostridium difficile colitis. Despite treatment with oral Vancomycin, she had persistent diarrhea and failure to thrive for a month. Repeat Clostridium difficile toxin was negative. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed erosive gastritis […]
Abstract Number: 493
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
A RARE CASE OF ANGIOIMMUNOBLASTIC T-CELL LYMPHOMA Sirish Dharmapuri MD, Marguerite Salam MD, Qi Shi MD Case Presentation: This is a 66 year old male who was hospitalized secondary to recurrent lower extremity cellulitis. He was also previously admitted about 2 months ago for bilateral lower extremity DVT and received an IVC filter as the […]
Abstract Number: 525
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 25-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with a 2-day history of abdominal pain which began abruptly and was associated with fevers, chills as well as intermittent nonproductive cough which had been present since her last episode of pneumonia about 6 months ago. She was admitted to the ICU for management of […]
Abstract Number: 537
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 29 year old male with a history of known dental caries and HIV with a CD4 count of 871/uL and an undetectable viral load presented with one month of right-sided jaw pain and facial numbness. He was initially treated for Bell’s palsy and dental abscess without improvement. It was recommended that he […]
Abstract Number: 557
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old female with PMH of iron deficiency anemia, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and hernia repair had received iron transfusions as well as blood transfusion. Despite which, her hemoglobin remained low, 7.3gm/dl. She was fatigued, but denied abdominal pain, black stool, vomiting blood, fevers or chills. She had an upper endoscopy that was unremarkable as […]
Abstract Number: 561
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Our patient was a 70-year-old male with a past medical history of HTN, HLD, COPD, and CAD status-post CABG. He originally presented with hypotension, new onset weakness, dyspnea, orthopnea and bilateral lower extremity pitting edema. As part of his work-up, a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis was ordered, which revealed an […]
Abstract Number: 576
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 27-year old African American male presented with 3 months of bilateral inguinal lymph node enlargement, fevers, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Patient presented for outpatient nodal biopsy and subsequently sent to the ED with severe thrombocytopenia with platelets less than 10,000 and complaints of gum bleeding and petechiae of 3 days. […]
Abstract Number: 584
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47- year-old man with a history of hypothyroidism presented to the emergency room (ER) for the evaluation of generalized body weakness and jaundice of a week duration. There was also associated intense generalized pruritus of about 6 months; subjective weight loss, recurrent fevers, nausea and vomiting. Physical examination was significant for an […]
Abstract Number: 598
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 77 year old Jehovah’s Witness woman presented with one month of petechial rash, epistaxis and oral mucosal bleeding. There was no recent travel or infectious illness. She denied herbal or toxic ingestions. Her exam was remarkable only for diffuse petechiae. Labwork was significant for new severe thrombocytopenia (2 K/UL), a normal peripheral […]