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Abstract Number: 512
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old female with a history of hypertension, depression, and alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department with right facial swelling and pain after biting her cheek the previous night. The patient first noticed a small, unconcerning “red bump” on her cheek that was minimally painful earlier that morning. She was admitted to […]
Abstract Number: 575
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female patient with a medical history of coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension (HTN), and mixed hyperlipidemia presented to our medical facility, reporting chest pain. She underwent a left heart catheterization, revealing significant stenosis in the proximal right coronary artery (RCA), which was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and […]
Abstract Number: 577
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 21-year old man presented with one day of scrotal swelling and pain. He developed sharp, throbbing pain after unprotected sex with a male partner a day prior. The pain had worsened over the last few hours. He was afebrile, normotensive and tachycardic. His scrotum was enlarged (> 25 centimeters) with well-demarcated erythema […]
Abstract Number: 586
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male presented to the emergency department for longstanding and persistently worsening headaches, subjective fevers, chills, malaise, and significant weight loss. One month prior to this visit, he had a dental abscess that was successfully treated with a course of Augmentin; since that time his headaches, chills, malaise, and significant weight loss […]
Abstract Number: 593
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old woman with history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented to ER with 3-day worsening abdominal pain that she was experiencing for about 4 months. Pain was sharp, mainly in periumbilical region and lower abdomen, associated with several episodes of vomiting, non-bloody diarrhea for two days, weakness and myalgia. On examination, she […]
Abstract Number: 606
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 56 year-old man with schizoaffective and antisocial personality disorders was admitted from the county jail witha 4-day history of fever, hemoptysis, severe headaches, hematuria, diffuse myalgias,and bloody diarrhea. Officers reported the patient frequently flooded his cell and ingested toilet water. A CXR revealed L>R bibasilar infiltrates, and a diagnosis of Legionellapneumonia was […]
Abstract Number: 621
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: 66-year-old Caucasian male with history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer presented to the emergency department with 6-week history of progressive weakness. Initially, he noted difficulty arising from a chair signifying weakness in his proximal lower extremity musculature. It then progressed to involve bilateral proximal upper extremities causing difficulty with brushing […]
Abstract Number: 622
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 51- year old male with a past medical history of cirrhosis due to sarcoidosis, was admitted with worsening left lower extremity pain and swelling for two days. He remembered a pop in his left leg two days ago after performing squats followed by severe left lower extremity pain the morning after. Additionally, […]
Abstract Number: 649
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Statin-induced necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (SINAM) is an immune mediated myopathy characterized by proximal muscle weakness and necrosis in the presence of autoantibodies to hydroxyl-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme-A (HMG-CoA) reductase. It is a rare side effect of statin use that must be recognized quickly in order to prevent the development of irreversible muscle weakness. Most cases occur […]
Abstract Number: 657
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Case presentation:A 56 year-old caucasian man with no significant past medical history presented to our center with acute left upper quadrant abdominal pain. CT angiography of the thorax was performed to rule-out pulmonary embolism which showed thickening and enhancement of the splenic and hepatic arteries without aneurysmal dilatation. To evaluate this further, a […]