Meeting
Abstract Number: 49
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 4-year-old female born in Mexico was sent to the emergency department for elevated blood pressures noted at her routine outpatient clinic visit. On arrival, her blood pressure was 161/126. The patient reported polydipsia, polyuria, and weight loss. Her initial physical exam was unremarkable and her vitals were otherwise within normal […]
Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old African American male patient with a past medical history of prostate cancer presented with progressive weakness, headache, and confusion. Free and total PSA levels were within normal limits. Brain MRI showed a 4.1×3.3×4.1 cm left frontal lesion at the surface of the left lateral ventricle with vasogenic edema and midline shift. […]
Abstract Number: 561
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic man with poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus complicated by nephropathy presented to a hospital with 2 weeks of nausea, vomiting, and progressive lethargy. During the initial evaluation, he developed a focal right-sided seizure advancing to a generalized tonic-clonic seizure lasting 30 seconds. He was afebrile, hypertensive, and non-tachycardic with normal saturation on […]