Background: It has been unclear about prevalence and in-hospital mortality of severe hypophosphatemia among hospitalized medical patients. Predictors for in-hospital mortality have not yet been determined in terms those may include serum nadir phosphate level, hemolytic complication from hypophosphatemia, or baseline disease as a cause of hypophosphatemia . Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted [...]

Case Presentation: A 63 year old African-American Male with a history of well-controlled hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented with a four day history of new-onset lower extremity, upper extremity, and abdominal swelling. He denied shortness of breath, chest pain, orthopnea, and constitutional symptoms, but did report occasional non-drenching night sweats. He reported being otherwise healthy with no known history of [...]

Case Presentation:  A 66-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to an outside hospital with persistent nausea and vomiting, a 45 pound weight loss, and dysphagia over a 4-week period. In addition to the new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, esophagogastroduodenoscopy identified a lesion in the gastric cardia concerning for [...]