Meeting
Abstract Number: 524
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 39 year-old woman presented to our hospital in late August with non-neutropenic fever and a diffuse maculopapular rash involving her palms and soles. Past medical history was significant for HER2 positive, locally advanced inflammatory carcinoma of the breast. The patient had received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, paclitaxel, pertuzumab, and trastuzumab two […]
Abstract Number: 590
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old gentleman with history of spinal trauma status post several spinal surgeries and chronic arachnoiditis presented to the emergency department reporting vertigo, generalized weakness, headache, and fever developing over the past two days. On exam he was alert and oriented, with irregularly irregular tachycardia, tachypnea, and a temperature of 39.2°C. Additionally and […]
Abstract Number: 1217
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 36 year old African-American gentleman with a history of asthma presented to the Emergency Department with dizziness, numbness of both lower extremities, gait imbalance, bowel and bladder incontinence which had been worsening since the last 2 months. MRI thoracic spine revealed Focus of abnormal T2 signal within the upper thoracic spinal cord […]