Meeting
Abstract Number: 673
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 82 year-old woman with history of stage five chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented with new onset of altered mental status, upper extremity tremors and slurred speech. Four days prior to presentation patient was diagnosed with urinary tract infection due to multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and was started on cefepime. On the day of […]
Abstract Number: 693
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 26-year-old male without prior medical history was referred by a spine surgeon to the emergency department (ED) with weakness, numbness, and discoordination of the right leg, worsening over a four month period and resulting in multiple falls. He reported three weeks of urinary and bowel urgency and incontinence. He had a family […]