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Search Results for pituitary apoplexy
Abstract Number: 465
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old Hispanic male with no significant past medical history presents with acute onset of headache, nausea, and vomiting for the past day, preceded by six months of progressively worsening peripheral vision and blurry vision in the right eye. Patient described a right-sided headache that became generalized and worsened within a few minutes […]
Abstract Number: 578
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man visited our hospital with complaints of malaise, appetite loss, diarrhea, and arthralgia, all of which he had experienced for 5 days before the visit. Although he had been previously healthy and fit, he had visited a different hospital one month earlier because of the sudden onset of a headache and […]
Abstract Number: 645
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old Japanese man was brought to our hospital because of a headache. He had noticed his headache and retroorbital pain four days before and they had been getting worse gradually. Subsequently, he noticed double vision and left drooping eyelid in the morning of the day before his first visit. He did not […]
Abstract Number: 748
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 86-year-old male patient with a history of hypertension and newly diagnosed stage 2 prostate cancer was referred from the cancer center due to a hypertensive emergency following the administration of a leuprolide injection. Shortly after receiving the first leuprolide injection, the patient experienced facial flushing, ocular pain, a sensation of eyes bulging […]
Abstract Number: 851
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented with a severe headache which was posterior, waxing and waning in nature, and associated with nausea and vomiting. The headache started suddenly five days earlier and had awoken her from sleep. At that time she had presented to the emergency […]
Abstract Number: 909
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with a medical history of hypertension presented with vomiting of 5 days. Vomitus was non-bloody, non-bilious in nature and was associated with headache. The headache was sudden in onset, bifrontal, 8/10 on a numerical rating pain scale.Initial vitals were remarkable for BP of 68/54 mm Hg which improved to 94/55 […]
Abstract Number: C39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old man with a history of bilateral retinal detachment, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and hypertension presented with several days of left eye pain, bitemporal headache and decreased vision. Vital signs were notable for fever (101.2F) and tachycardia (124 bpm). On physical exam, he was unable to open his left […]