Meeting
Abstract Number: 471
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 38 year-old-male with cirrhosis from hepatitis B and C complicated by recurrent ascites, previous spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP), and recurrent hepatic hydrothorax requiring transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt presented with two days of increasing dyspnea at rest. He had recently been nonadherent with SBP prophylaxis and diuretics. Laboratory findings revealed leukocytosis of 17,500k/uL, […]
Abstract Number: 813
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 25 year-old white man with no significant past medical history presented with gradually progressive dyspnea on exertion and dry cough for approximately two months. He was treated for community-acquired pneumonia with various oral antibiotics and corticosteroids without resolution of symptoms. Importantly, during a particularly severe coughing spell, he noted sharp right-sided chest […]