Meeting
Abstract Number: 417
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 6-month-old term female with history of mild reflux presented to the pediatric emergency department for seizure-like activity. Her mother described three episodes of eyes jerking and head bobbing, each occurring on waking from a nap and lasting about 30 seconds. She reported the patient’s eyes jerking rapidly to the right and slower […]
Abstract Number: 925
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: IntroductionDizziness is one of the most frequent complaints encountered in the medical practice affecting 15-20% of adults yearly 1, and can be challenging to assess. Dizziness can be classified into vertigo, disequilibrium and syncope. Most patients use dizziness as a non-specific term, and thus suffer prejudice from the physicians’ end and can be […]
Abstract Number: N35
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 34-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with blurry vision, weakness and dehydration after fasting for 7 weeks during which she lost about 20 pounds. On physical examination, patient was hypertensive, tachycardic, and malnourished with a BMI of 21. She was noted to have vertical and horizontal nystagmus bilaterally as well […]