Abstract
No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. History of Present Illness: A 75-year-old man presented from a skilled nursing facility with altered mental status and hypotension. He had a seven-year-long history of steroid-dependent myasthenia gravis, but had previously declined Covid vaccination, and subsequently experienced a severe case of COVID-19 pneumonia five months prior to admission. This resulted in chronic respiratory failure and renal failure for which he subsequently underwent tracheostomy, tunneled subclavian vein dialysis catheter placement and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). He had resided in a skilled nursing facility since then, requiring four subsequent hospital readmissions for complications. These sequentially included septic shock due to a catheter associated blood stream infection, an intra-abdominal abscess due to PEG migration into the peritoneum resulting in fungal blood stream infection, recurrent intra-abdominal infection with multiple organisms, and bacterial pneumonia. Treatment of these infectious complications included replacement of the tunneled dialysis catheter and exploratory laparotomy with debridement of multiple abscesses. The …
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