Meeting
Abstract Number: 661
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 81 year old Asian woman with past medical history of diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and arthritis presented with fever and five days of worsening neck stiffness and pain, worsened by neck movement. Laboratory examination revealed mild leukocytosis, CRP 28 and ESR 114. Broad spectrum antibiotics were started for possible meningitis. Lumbar […]
Abstract Number: 1008
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old female with a history of Cerebrovascular accident, diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and osteoarthritis, presents to the hospital for worsening acute neck pain which had woken her up in the night a week prior. She had had minimal to no relief with Tylenol or Flexeril and her neck pain had continued […]