Altered Mental Status and Renal Failure in a 58-Year-Old Woman

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A 37-year-old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Urinary Frequency

We present a case report of a patient who initially presented with altered mental status and significant urinary frequency. Over the course of her emergency department stay, she then developed tachycardia out of proportion to a new fever along with a respiratory alkalosis. Although each objective finding has a broad differential diagnosis, thyroid storm was the only unifying diagnosis when all ...

Altered mental status in a 66-year-old woman during the late summer months.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2004;17:353–356 In the summer of 2003, a 66-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with fever, chills, and decreased oral intake. She was discharged home after intravenous hydration. Routine laboratory evaluation showed all relevant values to be within normal limits. After returning home, the patient’s clinical status progressively worsened. She returned to the em...

A 16-year-old boy with altered mental status.

and colleagues discuss hard-to-diagnose cases. A 16-year-old boy was transferred from an outside hospital for evaluation of altered mental status. Earlier in the month, he had begun having feelings of nervousness and anxiety. He reported hearing voices and having visual hallucinations. According to his parents, these symptoms had begun after the patient had been out clubbing with his friends; h...

Renal Hydatid Cyst in a 50-year-old woman: A Case Report

Introduction: Hydatidosis (hydatid cyst) is one of the most common infectious diseases between humans and animals that it is created by parasite (tapeworm) the echinococcusgranulosus larvae, which randomly infects an individual to one or more cysts. The hydatid cyst can affect all organs. The most common sites of involvement is liver and lung and rarely other organs, such as the kidneys, the br...