Meeting
Abstract Number: 566
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 39-year old female with a history of alcohol abuse presented with an eight-day history of numbness involving her bilateral lower extremities and hands which had progressed proximally to involve her chest wall. She reported perioral and perianal numbness, lethargy and difficulty ambulating. Examination was significant for decreased sensation in a glove-stocking distribution, […]
Abstract Number: 587
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 60-year-old woman with a twelve-year history of presumed gastroparesis of unclear etiology, was admitted for worsening chronic abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting with unintentional weight loss of over 80 pounds over a year. Evaluation included normal laboratory findings and abdominal imaging. Upper endoscopy showed mild mucosal erythema with normal biopsies of the stomach. […]