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Search Results for Ketoacidosis
Abstract Number: 704
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease (CAD) with multiple previous PCIs and status post CABG 6 days prior, presented to the ED with a 1 day history of nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal discomfort and chest pain. He was maintained on […]
Abstract Number: 709
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old woman with migraines, bipolar disorder, and hypothyroidism presented with a 2-day headache that was not improving with sumatriptan. She also complained of generalized weakness, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting. Workup revealed diabetic ketoacidosis, with blood glucose 530 mg/dL, venous pH 7.02, bicarbonate of 8 mmol/L, and anion gap 29. The patient had […]
Abstract Number: 719
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes on insulin pump and hypertension presented to the ED with abdominal pain with associated nausea/vomiting and shortness of breath for one day. She reported her insulin pump has been malfunctioning for several days. She denied fever/chills, chest pain, or diarrhea. She denied any toxic habits.Vital signs […]
Abstract Number: 719
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 19 year-old female presented to the emergency room with complaints of nausea, headaches, polyuria, polydipsia and anorexia for four days. She denied urinary urgency or frequency. Her exam was unremarkable except for a flat affect and slowed speech. She was found to have hyperglycemia to 401mg/dL, elevated beta hydroxybutyrate to […]
Abstract Number: 724
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 25-year-old female with a history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1 presented with altered mental status, abdominal pain, and tenderness. On presentation, she was afebrile, hemodynamically stable. Further workup revealed leukocytosis 27000/ml, acute kidney injury with creatinine 2.47 mg/dl, blood glucose 1000 + mg/dl; glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c 11.5%); amylase […]
Abstract Number: 732
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 52-year-old Hispanic man with a medical history of hypertension, T2D with neuropathy, and hyperlipidemia without previous exposure to glucocorticoid presented to the emergency department (ED) with mild fever, headache, and shortness lasting three days. His diabetes had been well controlled with glipizide, metformin, and liraglutide, and his recent glycated hemoglobin was 7.2% […]
Abstract Number: 752
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old African American man presented as a transfer from an outside hospital for uncontrolled diabetic ketoacidosis. Two months prior to admission he was diagnosed with ketosis prone type 2 diabetes mellitus. On presentation he had a BMI 22.6, a rash around his nose, acanthosis nigricans under his arms, Raynaud’s phenomenon and intermittent […]
Abstract Number: 756
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 89-year-old year old woman with a history of type II diabetes mellitus, insulin-naïve and well-controlled on a regimen of metformin, sitagliptin, and dapagliflozin, presented with 3 days of nausea, vomiting, and poor intake of food and liquids. She had recently been prescribed cephalexin for a suspected UTI. She reported a subacute history […]
Abstract Number: 813
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old male with a history of type II diabetes mellitus on metformin presented with five days of severe, post-prandial epigastric pain with inability to tolerate meals. Labs on admission were notable for mild hyperglycemia with finger stick blood glucose between 100 and 200 mmol/L with an anion gap of 21, pH 7.3, […]
Abstract Number: 813
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 48-year-old-female with the history of Diabetes Mellitus presented with the complain of feeling sick for four-day-duration, chronic diarrhea, and unintentional weight loss of 20 lbs. over a period of two weeks. She was hypotensive with blood pressure 83/42 mmHg, hypothermic with temperature 35 C, tachycardic with the heart rate of 132 and tachypneic […]