Meeting
Abstract Number: 791
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old Japanese man presented with a 5-month history of bilateral leg edema. He visited his family doctor 3 months ago and started taking furosemide, but the symptom didn’t improve. His past medical history included chronic atrial fibrillation. He reported malaise, constipation and weight gain but denied fever or night sweats. On admission, […]
Abstract Number: 900
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 71-year-old male with extensive smoking history was referred to the hospital by his PCP for new-onset severe hyponatremia of 117mMol/L. He denied any active complaints and initial physical examination showed an euvolemic male. Low serum osmolality of 245mOsm/kg but high urine osmolality of 309mOsm/kg and high urine sodium of 68mEq/L were suggestive of […]