Meeting
Abstract Number: 614
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: An 89-year-old woman with hypertension, dementia, and vertebral fracture was admitted to another hospital because of hip pain after fall. Since she was also found to have oxygen desaturation, the patient was referred to our hospital for further workup. She denied dyspnea, cough, sputum, chest pain, palpitation, episode of aspiration, or fever. On […]
Abstract Number: 660
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 75 year old with non-alcoholic cirrhosis, heart failure preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and recurrent abdominal abscesses presented with platypnea orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) following diuresis. His oxygen saturation was 100% when lying flat and 78-80% when upright. Trans-esophageal echocardiogram confirmed a sinus venosus defect (SVD) with partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) of right […]
Abstract Number: 699
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: An 80-year-old Japanese woman presented to our hospital with dyspnea in the sitting and standing positions. Two months prior to her admission, she had presented to another hospital with multiple vertebral compression fractures. After being discharged from the hospital, she developed dyspnea in the sitting and standing positions. She also reported an episode […]