Meeting
Abstract Number: 869
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Patient is a middle-aged African-American female with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia, for which she had been on atorvastatin for approximately four years. She originally presented to her primary care physician for evaluation of a one month history of progressive myalgias and proximal muscle weakness. Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) level was elevated to […]
Abstract Number: 993
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old Caucasian male presented for evaluation of worsening lower extremity muscle weakness and associated myalgias. He received a diagnosis of NAM after three months of progressive proximal, symmetric upper and lower extremity weakness with myalgias, and an initial creatinine kinase (CK) of 13,875 IU/L. He had been on Atorvastatin 40 mg for […]