Meeting
Abstract Number: 329
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 70-year-old male with remote past medical history of prostate cancer and COPD presented to the emergency department with new onset left side weakness along with left side facial droop. Patient underwent CT scan of the head which was negative and an MRI of the brain which showed multiple bilateral small strokes that raised […]
Abstract Number: 677
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 59-year-old Male who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with generalized rash and fevers. The patient stated that the rash started as a blister in his groin and then spread to the rest of his body. The patient’s past medical history was significant for seizures controlled with phenytoin, cirrhosis secondary to alcohol abuse, […]
Abstract Number: 817
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy two-year-old girl from southeastern Kentucky presented with pallor. She took no medications. Upon review of her diet, she was consuming nearly a gallon of whole milk daily. She enjoyed playing outdoors barefoot with several dogs and had been eating chalk, dirt, sand, and pieces of coal over the past year. […]