Meeting
Abstract Number: 742
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 62 YO woman with PMHx significant for type 2 DM, HTN, CAD with a previous MI, and OSA was recovering as expected from elective decompressive laminectomy. On POD 4 she developed nausea, confusion, and lethargy. The hospitalist service was consulted, prompting a metabolic work-up that suggested anion gap metabolic acidosis. There were […]
Abstract Number: 773
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 54 year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension and Type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with metformin and canagliflozin presented to the hospital with lethargy and malaise. She reported that her blood glucose was stable over the past 2 weeks with fingerstick glucoses ranging from 100-130mg/ dL. She had been vomiting […]
Abstract Number: 867
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old woman with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) on insulin complicated by prior DKA presented with headache, nausea, vomiting, and palpitations for several hours. Her DM regimen included insulin glargine, linagliptin, and as of 6 months prior, canagliflozin, an SGLT2 inhibitor. Three days before admission, the patient began skipping basal insulin doses […]