Meeting
Abstract Number: 582
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 59 year-old male with intellectual disability presented with abdominal pain and distension following a fecal impaction. Imaging revealed diffuse gaseous colonic distension with colonic wall thickening suggestive of inflammatory colitis and colonic ileus without obstruction. His labs were notable for severe hypokalemia (1.5 mmol/L) and mild hypomagnesemia. Despite empiric antibiotic course, imaging […]