Meeting
Abstract Number: 510
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 14-year-old previously healthy male presented to a community hospital for sudden repeated episodes of initially non-bloody, and then grossly bloody, emesis. He denied sick contacts, travel, significant NSAID use, alcohol consumption, and caustic ingestions. On presentation, he had normal vital signs, mild epigastric tenderness, and heme-positive dark stool. His labs were notable [...]
Abstract Number: 773
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 56 year-old male with past medical history of chronic pancreatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis, cured hepatitis C, iron deficiency anemia and gastric arterio-venous malformations (AVM) status post cauterization presented for screening colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). EGD showed several nonbleeding gastric AVM status post Argon Plasma Coagulation. The colonoscopy was unremarkable without any reported difficulty [...]
Abstract Number: 0046
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 3-year-old previously healthy female presented as a transfer from an outlying facility with a 1.5-week history of no stool output and progressively worsening abdominal pain. Trials of polyethylene glycol at home were unsuccessful. She subsequently developed a distended, firm, acute abdomen on the day of admission. There was no associated fever, vomiting, [...]
Abstract Number: 0823
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old female with a history of a remote history of left tibia chondrosarcoma requiring surgical resection presented to our hospital with two weeks of persistent fevers after returning from Jamaica. She reported three months of drenching night sweats, 10-pound weight loss over two months, and generalized myalgias. Upon admission, imaging revealed diffuse [...]