Meeting
Abstract Number: 608
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: This is the case of a 57-year-old lady with rapidly progressive stage IV pulmonary adenocarcinoma who presented two months after diagnosis with findings of significant hyponatremia. Upon admission, she was afebrile, hypotensive and tachycardic. Sodium was 119 mEq/L, potassium 2.4 mEq/L, chloride 67 mEq/L, serum osmolality 246 mosm/kg, urine osmolality 684 mosm/kg and […]
Abstract Number: 838
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden onset shortness of breath (SOB) associated with chest pain. He had a past medical history significant for hypertension, history of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism for which an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter was placed 26 years ago. He was tachycardic and […]