Meeting
Abstract Number: 624
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old-male with history of diabetes type 1 and renal transplant on immunosuppression presents with 2 weeks of weakness, anorexia, and cough. Initial exam revealed temperature 102.8 but was otherwise normal. He was started on empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics. Two days after admission, he was found obtunded and dysarthric. He suffered an aspiration event […]
Abstract Number: 690
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year old female with a history of ovarian torsion, s/p ovarian cystectomy, presented to the emergency department in status epilepticus. Over the past week, the patient experienced a rapid deterioration in behavior associated with visual/auditory hallucinations, and panic attacks. The patient was afebrile, blood pressure of 135/70, heart rate of 120, and […]
Abstract Number: 751
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 35-year-old Hispanic female, with no significant past medical history, first presented after a witnessed seizure but rapidly developed confusion, flat affect, agitation, and suicidal ideation necessitating inpatient psychiatric hold and high dose antipsychotics. She further deteriorated becoming unresponsive while displaying prominent orofacial dyskinesias, muscle rigidity, and autonomic instability that resulted in periodic […]