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Abstract Number: 359
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Atrial Fibrillation, and Type 2 Diabetes presented for evaluation of worsening diffuse, erythematous, and painful rash all over his body. The rash initially began 2 months ago and was biopsied at an outside hospital. The biopsy was read as a “dermal hypersensitivity […]
Abstract Number: 477
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Sweet Syndrome, also known as acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis is an uncommon inflammatory disorder of skin characterized by abrupt eruption of painful, edematous, erythematous papules, plaques, nodules and rarely bullous lesions in addition to involvement of mucous membranes, musculoskeletal system and internal organs. There are very few cases reported with sweet syndrome (mostly […]
Abstract Number: 479
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old Caucasian woman presented with severe vomiting and abdominal pain for three days. Her past medical history revealed that she was diagnosed in 2010 with ulcerative colitis proctitis and was recently started on azathioprine. In the past, she had received a short course of steroids, but was complicated by an increase in […]
Abstract Number: 480
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old male with history of bilateral degenerative hip joint disease presented for worsening serosanguinous drainage from his wounds one week after bilateral hip replacement. He further developed diaphoresis and chills and received cephalexin at an outside hospital from where he was later discharged. He did not have improvement from antibiotics and his […]
Abstract Number: 551
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: The patient was a 57 year old male with IgG lambda MM (Multiple Myeloma) without remission after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant. One month after transplantation, he developed erythematous right flank swelling, high fever, fatigue and anorexia. CT scan revealed inflammatory stranding of right medial gluteal musculature and pre sacral space which was […]
Abstract Number: 607
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 74 year-old man with coronary artery disease and hypertension, who was two weeks post-admission for cholangitis with biliary-tube placement and ATN, re-presented to our institution with weakness, subacute progressive abdominal distension, and diffuse abdominal pain in the setting of serosanguineous biliary tube output. He was febrile with a leukocytosis and started on […]
Abstract Number: 666
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 48 year-old woman with a history of ulcerative colitis presented to the hospital with a rash and diffuse myalgia of one-week duration. The skin rash was painful and mildly pruritic. She had no fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or arthralgia. Physical exam revealed papules on the conjunctivae of her right eye and non-tender, […]
Abstract Number: 1006
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 90 year old female with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast previously treated with lumpectomy and whole breast radiotherapy, currently on hormonal therapy presented to the hospital with 3 days of confusion, slurred speech, generalized weakness and erythema of the right chest and right lower extremity. Patient denied recent changes in skin […]