Session Type
Meeting
Search Results for stercoral
Abstract Number: 472
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated by neurogenic bladder with indwelling catheter and severe peripheral vascular disease status post bilateral below knee amputations (BKAs) presented with watery diarrhea and nausea for 1 day. Both amputations were in the preceding four months. He required multiple rounds of antibiotics […]
Abstract Number: 477
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old man with heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and hereditary spastic paralysis was hospitalized with hyperkalemia to 7.7 mmol/L. He was admitted a month prior with heart failure and discharged on lisinopril with a new prescription for spironolactone. The patient had decreased appetite, limited oral intake, mild nausea, and no vomiting with […]
Abstract Number: 666
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: An 87 year old male with a history of bilateral cataract surgery 18 months prior and recent immigration to the United States as a farmer from Honduras presented for bilateral vision loss and eye pain worsening over the last 3 months. Evaluation by Ophthalmology revealed left panuveitis, right anterior uveitis, and right retinal […]
Abstract Number: 923
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male veteran with prostate cancer s/p prostatectomy in 2002 with positive margins, uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, untreated hepatitis C, 50-pack-year history, presented for admission after routine labs at his primary care physician’s office revealed prominent eosinophilia of 6,900 and hyponatremia. The patient’s main complaint was generalized pruritus and a one-month pruritic […]
Abstract Number: B39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension who recently emigrated from El Salvador presented to an ambulatory clinic for evaluation of substernal chest pain that started eight days earlier. He described the chest pain as intermittent, non-radiating, and associated with palpitations, chills, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis. He denied fever, […]
Abstract Number: 1067
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24 year old Hispanic male with history of ESRD due to presumed medullary cystic disease who underwent DDKT x2 first in 2/2011 complicated by acute vascular rejection with loss of transplant, then again in 11/2011 which was complicated by antibody mediated rejection in 2015 that was treated with plasmapheresis developed a subacute […]