Meeting
Abstract Number: 596
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 44 year old male with insulin dependent type 2 Diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism presented with fatigue, weakness, dyspnea on exertion and light headedness for several weeks. He denied bloody stools or melena. Medications included metformin for the last 3 months, levothyroxine, simvastatin, enalapril and detemir insulin. The patient was adherent to his medical [...]
Abstract Number: 681
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old male presented to the emergency department after a witnessed episode of unresponsiveness, jerking motions, urinary incontinence and post-ictal confusion. The patient’s wife denied a history of epilepsy but reported several months of progressive dysarthria and gait ataxia, for which he had been evaluated nine months earlier. Work-up was negative for hemorrhage, [...]
Abstract Number: 689
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 58 year old African-American female child-care worker with history of GERD presented with symptomatic anemia. She was in her usual state of health until ten days prior to presentation, when she had several days of GI illness consisting of abdominal pain and diarrhea. Her symptoms self-resolved, only with residual mild epigastric abdominal pain. [...]