Meeting
Abstract Number: 515
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: The patient is a 58-year-old male with a past medical history of end-stage liver cirrhosis status post-liver transplantation in 1991 who was on tacrolimus (TAC) 1 mg twice a day. He was admitted for altered mental status, fever and respiratory distress. He was found to have bilateral pneumonia treated as community-acquired pneumonia. The […]
Abstract Number: 723
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Four years after kidney transplantation a 65 year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and no psychiatric history is referred to the hospital by her primary care physician to evaluate altered mental status. She was successfully maintained on tacrolimus with stable trough levels. During the preceding three months she had developed progressive symptoms […]