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Abstract Number: 401
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A healthy 11-year old female presented with 5 days of fever, headache, and progressive symptoms that included blurry vision, photophobia, lightheadedness, nausea, and intermittent vomiting. Family history was positive for migraine headaches. On exam, she had pupils measuring 10 mm, blurry vision and loss of acuity, but no visual field deficits or pain [...]
Abstract Number: 459
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: We present an unusual case of a previously healthy patient presenting with a demyelinating polyneuropathy, which was determined to be the initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).This was a 36 year-old female with an unremarkable past medical history who presented with leg weakness that progressively spread to her arms with associated tingling [...]
Abstract Number: 537
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 18-year-old woman admitted to the hospital due to a new-onset tonic seizure lasting five minutes. She had recent history of flu-like illness a few weeks earlier. A review of systems revealed auditory and visual hallucinations. On physical examination, she was drowsy and disorientated to time only, but was following commands. Neurological examination [...]
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year old female with no significant medical history presented to another hospital with progressive paresthesisas and lower extremity weakness for 6 weeks. Within 24 hours of admission she rapidly declined, requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. She was sent to our facility for further management. On arrival she had flaccid, areflexic quadriparesis [...]
Abstract Number: 586
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 73 year old female presented with acute onset of recurrent falls lasting for 1 week. On day 2 of her hospitalization, hematuria with dysuria was present, which was treated as an UTI. Physical examination revealed progressive ascending weakness from lower to upper extremities with decreased reflexes bilaterally. She also developed urinary retention [...]
Abstract Number: 608
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus type 2 and severe malnutrition presented to our institution with symptoms of altered mental status and dysuria. Initial evaluation was most notable for a capillary blood glucose of 1113 mg/dL and initial sodium of 125 mEq/L (which corrected for glucose level was within the normal range of [...]
Abstract Number: 661
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old man with a past medical history of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus type 2 presented to the emergency room with 7 months of bilateral leg pain and swelling that acutely worsened in the last 2 weeks and multiple recent mechanical falls. The falls were not associated with loss of consciousness or other [...]
Abstract Number: 680
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 55 year old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and significant history of alcohol abuse presented after presyncope with subsequent fall and head trauma. On presentation he was confused and dysarthric. He complained of generalized malaise for the past two weeks associated with nausea and poor nutritional intake. He denied fever, [...]
Abstract Number: 687
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: We present a 69-year-old man with past medical history of well-controlled type 2 diabetes and multiple myeloma status-post chemotherapy (daratumumab, lenalidomide, bortezomib, melphalan) and subsequent bone marrow transplant (BMT) who presented with subacute progressive bilateral numbness and weakness in his upper and lower extremities and was found to have acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.His [...]
Abstract Number: 814
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old man with hypertension on chlorthalidone and recent COVID-19 infection treated with Paxlovid presented to the ED with three days of shortness of breath, dizziness, and diarrhea. On exam, he was alert, neurologically non-focal, and underweight by BMI. Initial lab work was significant for severe hyponatremia (< 100 mmol/L) and hypokalemia (2.3 [...]