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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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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-36284772013-04-18 A 37-year-old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Urinary Frequency Ravikumar, Deepa Lin, Michelle West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen 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. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2013-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3628477/ /pubmed/23599865 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2012.11.13627 Text en Copyright © 2013 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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