Meeting
Abstract Number: 523
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 78 year old male with diabetes mellitus, smoking, cirrhosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and recurrent left-sided pleural effusions presented with volume overload and oliguria. His serum creatinine had been stable at a baseline of 0.8 mg/dL for years, but in the past month, his serum creatinine progressed to 5.3 mg/dL. 24-hour urinary […]
Abstract Number: 614
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 63 year old African-American Male with a history of well-controlled hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented with a four day history of new-onset lower extremity, upper extremity, and abdominal swelling. He denied shortness of breath, chest pain, orthopnea, and constitutional symptoms, but did report occasional non-drenching night sweats. He reported being otherwise healthy with no known history of […]