Meeting
Abstract Number: 492
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Bacterial osteomyelitis is very challenging to treat. This is partly due to the widespread antimicrobial resistance to gram positive bacterium Staphylococcus Aureus. We present a severe case of disseminated staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis, that includes bacteriemia, psoas abscess, infective endocarditis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis of knee and shoulder joints. A 63-year-old woman with poorly controlled […]
Abstract Number: 631
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 30 y/o man presented to the ED with complaints of unresolved monkeypox lesions. Along with this recent diagnosis of monkeypox with TPOXX treatment failure, he has a past medical history significant for advanced HIV/AIDS with CD4< 2 at admission on Bactrim prophylaxis, resolved Campylobacter infection, and chronic normocytic anemia. A month prior, […]
Abstract Number: 827
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female with metastatic thyroid cancer status-post (s/p) radioiodine ablation and total thyroidectomy on oral chemotherapy, chronic kidney disease stage IV s/p deceased donor kidney transplant in 2019 on oral immunosuppression, presented with weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and acute-on-chronic dysphagia. While dysphagia work-up was ongoing, patient was noted to have right wrist swelling, […]