Meeting
Abstract Number: 561
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic man with poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus complicated by nephropathy presented to a hospital with 2 weeks of nausea, vomiting, and progressive lethargy. During the initial evaluation, he developed a focal right-sided seizure advancing to a generalized tonic-clonic seizure lasting 30 seconds. He was afebrile, hypertensive, and non-tachycardic with normal saturation on […]
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year old female with no significant medical history presented to another hospital with progressive paresthesisas and lower extremity weakness for 6 weeks. Within 24 hours of admission she rapidly declined, requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. She was sent to our facility for further management. On arrival she had flaccid, areflexic quadriparesis […]