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Abstract Number: 673
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Pericardial effusion is relatively common in patients with uncontrolled hypothyroidism, but rarely, it progresses to cardiac tamponade. We describe a case of myxedema coma presenting with cardiac tamponade. Discussion: A 63-year-old African American morbidly obese lady with history of hypothyroidism presented with worsening dyspnea and unresponsiveness. Family reported that she is non-compliant […]
Abstract Number: 686
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 22 year-old female from Guyana with no past medical history presented with shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, and dry cough x 5 months. She was treated for community-acquired pneumonia 6 months earlier, though her symptoms persisted. She had an exercise tolerance limited to one block, subjective fevers, malaise, and unintentional weight […]
Abstract Number: 695
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 77-year-old Caucasian male presents to the ER due to progressive shortness of breath impacting his activities of daily activity. Shortness of breath started 2 weeks ago and was associated with a hacking cough and minimal sputum production for which he visited his physician’s office and received a steroid shot for “bronchitis”. On further […]
Abstract Number: 725
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation on apixaban and panhypopituitarism secondary to resection of a pituitary adenoma in the 1980s presented to our hospital for chest pain. His recent history is notable for recurrent cystitis and Clostridium difficile infections requiring stress-doses of glucocorticoids; his endocrinologist had been attempting to taper […]
Abstract Number: 737
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old Caucasian female with a history of obesity hypoventilation syndrome on 2L/min home oxygen therapy, breast cancer status post lumpectomy and radiation, and deep vein thrombosis on warfarin, presented to the emergency room with a chief complaint of dyspnea. She noted she was saturating between 70-80 percent on home pulse oximetry, prompting […]
Abstract Number: 779
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 52 y.o with a past medical history of uncontrolled, untreated hypertension presented to our hospital with a 3 week history of progressively worsening lower extremity edema and shortness of breath. Review of systems was positive for hoarse voice x6 months, unintentional weight gain, cold intolerance, abdominal fullness, and cough productive of white […]
Abstract Number: 779
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 68 year old caucasian female presented to the emergency department with 1 week of fever, chest pain, and dyspnea. On exam, she appeared cachectic and toxic . Her temperature was 101F, heart rate was 124/min, and she was in Atrial fibrillation. Her BP initially was 100/66, and respiratory rate was 25/min. Pulsus […]
Abstract Number: 802
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health problem and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) further adds to the developing countries’ fight against tuberculosis, with pericardial effusion being a potentially fatal complication. Here we report, a 19 year old male from South Asia with a past medical history of bilateral bronchiectasis (as shown in figure 1) and […]
Abstract Number: 972
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 77 year old male with history of complete heart block with permanent pacemaker placement and recent diagnosis of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation on apixaban presented to emergency room with chief complaint of abdominal pain and dyspnea on exertion. The complete blood count, electrolyte panel, and serum creatinine were unremarkable. The initial troponin was elevated […]
Abstract Number: K36
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic male with a past medical history of well-controlled hypertension, Pre-diabetes, class 3 obesity, unprovoked Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) progressing to pulmonary embolism (PE) diagnosed 6 months ago, treated with apixaban, presented to the ED with 2 weeks history of progressively worsening dyspnea, dry cough and orthopnea. Denies any chest pain, […]