Meeting
Abstract Number: 756
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old female with a history of breast cancer and pancreatic cancer, with status post Whipple procedure and started with capecitabine one month prior to admission, severe malnutrition, started on a high-protein diet one month prior, presented with acute encephalopathy. Her symptoms started acutely as confusion, then progressed to somnolence. She was alert [...]
Abstract Number: 904
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 28-year-old man with Stage IV colon adenocarcinoma presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, dyspnea on exertion, and generalized weakness. Two weeks ago, he experienced similar symptoms during his first cycle of fluorouracil (FU) bolus and infusion, oxaliplatin and leucovorin chemotherapy (FOLFOX). Two days ago, he was symptomatically premedicated and received [...]