Meeting
Abstract Number: 740
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old man presented with two days of confusion, tremors and seizures. Past medical history included schizophrenia, epilepsy, HCV infection and right hemiparesis due to ischemic strokes. He initiated dasabuvir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir (Viekira Pak) three days earlier. His epilepsy had been well controlled on lamotrigine for years. Review of systems was […]
Abstract Number: 900
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 58 year-old woman with history of chronic kidney disease, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and hypertension presented with three weeks of worsening generalized weakness. She denied recent vomiting, diarrhea, or polyuria. Laboratories revealed severe hypokalemia with potassium of 2.3 mEq/L, sodium of 141 mEq/L, magnesium of 1.5 mEq/L, glucose of 129 mEq/L, creatinine of […]