Meeting
Abstract Number: 423
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 66 year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency department with intermittent fevers, chills, fatigue and dyspnea of 1 week duration. He denied any nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, changes in bowel habit or significant trauma. He lived in a wooded area and had 3 previous Lyme infections but denied any recent tick bite, […]
Abstract Number: 484
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old male with no past medical history presented with chief complaint of generalized weakness, fatigue, headache, loss of appetite and intermittent fever and chills for 5 days. On arrival to the ED, his vitals were notable for temperature was 102.3F.. Labs notable for a hemoglobin 12.5 g/dL, platelets 55×109/L, sodium 128 mmol/L, […]
Abstract Number: 723
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 86-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation on apixaban and aspirin for coronary artery disease presented with orthostatic syncope leading to a fall. Patient had complained of left upper quadrant abdominal pain the night prior to the fall. Patient denied trauma prior to the onset of abdominal pain, recent sore throat, […]
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 […]