Meeting
Abstract Number: 477
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old man with heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and hereditary spastic paralysis was hospitalized with hyperkalemia to 7.7 mmol/L. He was admitted a month prior with heart failure and discharged on lisinopril with a new prescription for spironolactone. The patient had decreased appetite, limited oral intake, mild nausea, and no vomiting with […]
Abstract Number: 612
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: We present the case of a 33 year old male who presented with a one day history of non-radiating right upper quadrant abdominal pain worsened by physical activity and lying on his right side. The patient initially suspected that he may have been constipated, but then presented to our hospital due to increasing […]
Abstract Number: 721
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with history of hypertension on amlodipine, hydralazine, losartan, spironolactone, and torsemide, uncontrolled insulin dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage IIIb, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with extreme leukocytosis of 268,600/uL on admission presented to the hospital for progressive shortness of breath and was found to be […]