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 fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ravikumar, Deepa, Lin, Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2013
Materias:
Diagnostic Acumen
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3628477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23599865
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2012.11.13627
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Sumario: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 findings were present.

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