Meeting
Abstract Number: 741
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 68-year-old woman presented with three weeks of progressive abdominal and leg swelling. While visiting family in Mexico two weeks prior, she developed an itchy rash on her thighs that spread distally. She denied fever, cough, dysphagia, vomiting, or abdominal pain, but did report a six pound weight loss. Physical exam […]
Abstract Number: 1006
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: An 89 year-old female with hyperlipidemia presented with diplopia, vertigo, and dysarthria. Seven weeks prior to presentation, she developed horizontal diplopia. Four weeks prior, she noted vertigo with no hearing loss, tinnitus, or aural fullness. Two weeks prior, her speech became slurred. She presented to an outside hospital where MRI with contrast was […]