Browsing by Title "Case of the month"
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Abdominal pain and normal test results
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-03)A 72 year old male presented to the MU Internal Medicine inpatient service with a two month history of fatigue and malaise. He reported URI symptoms and low grade fevers during this period for which he had been seen at ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-10)A 23 year old Caucasian male, with no significant past medial history, was admitted to University Hospital for evaluation of fever, chills and back pain. The patient reported that, five days prior to admission, he developed ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-06)A 40 year old African Amercian male, with a history of diabetes, presented to the emergency department with persistent diarrhea over the past few months. Soon after arrival, the patient developed respiratory failure, ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-06)An 86 year old AA woman was referred to University Hospital from the dialysis center where she had complained of worsening dyspnea over the past 2 weeks. She denied cough, fever, chills or rigors. Per her dialysis notes, ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-02)Description and diagnosis of 67 year-old Caucasian male patient admitted to the ER. -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-10)A 25 year old previously healthy female presented with a sore throat of three days duration. Associated symptoms included dysphagia and odynophagia but no drooling was reported. Her pain progressed to the point that she ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-07)A 20 year old male was transferred to UMH for ongoing treatment of atypical pneumonia. One week before transfer, he had developed fever, chills, sweats, malaise, a minimally productive cough and shortness of breath. The ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-05)A 72 year old female presented to the ER after she suffered a traumatic hip fracture following a dizzy spell. She was trying to stand up when she suddenly became light headed and fell to the ground. She denied any loss of ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-03)A 68 year old Caucasian male, with a past history of myasthenia gravis, peptic ulcer disease, vertebral compression fractures and hypertension, presented to University Hospital with a two month history of anorexia and diarrhea. -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-01)This is a case of partially-treated, community acquired pneumonia (CAP), presenting with severe complications of parapneumonic effusion, empyema, hemolytic anemia and pancytopenia. Common pathogens of CAP that may present ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-05)A 46 year old female, with a past medical history of hypertension and hypothyroidism, presented to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain. The pain was described as epigastric, sharp, 7/10 and radiating around to the ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-04)A 46 year old white male was admitted from the emergency department with severe pain in his legs, feet and hands, which began two days prior to admission. He described the bilateral pain as shooting and burning in nature; ... -
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(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2011-09) -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-04)A 33 year old African American male was admitted to the University of Missouri I.M. Service, referred from a community hospital for uncontrolled hypertension. He was initially diagnosed with hypertension approximately ten ... -
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(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-02)Orthopedic Surgery requested an inpatient Internal Medicine consultation for evaluation of an 81 year old woman with multiple vertebral fractures of possible pathologic origin. The patient had been in excellent health with ...