Meeting
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year old female with no significant medical history presented to another hospital with progressive paresthesisas and lower extremity weakness for 6 weeks. Within 24 hours of admission she rapidly declined, requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. She was sent to our facility for further management. On arrival she had flaccid, areflexic quadriparesis […]
Abstract Number: 680
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 55 year old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and significant history of alcohol abuse presented after presyncope with subsequent fall and head trauma. On presentation he was confused and dysarthric. He complained of generalized malaise for the past two weeks associated with nausea and poor nutritional intake. He denied fever, […]
Abstract Number: 814
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old man with hypertension on chlorthalidone and recent COVID-19 infection treated with Paxlovid presented to the ED with three days of shortness of breath, dizziness, and diarrhea. On exam, he was alert, neurologically non-focal, and underweight by BMI. Initial lab work was significant for severe hyponatremia (< 100 mmol/L) and hypokalemia (2.3 […]