| Autor: |
Mayo R; Family Medicine Residency Program, AHEC Southwest, Texarkana, Texas, USA. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
The Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society [J Ark Med Soc] 2005 Jan; Vol. 101 (7), pp. 222-3. |
| Abstrakt: |
A 55-year-old male presented to the AHEC Southwest Family Medicine Residency inpatient medicine service at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, with a recent history of decreased level of consciousness. He was a resident of a local nursing home because of several chronic illnesses. During the initial evaluation in the emergency department, he was noted to have a serum calcium level of 13.8 mg/dL. A repeat level was 14.2 mg/dL. He was admitted to investigate the change in mental status and to initiate the work-up and treatment of hypercalcemia. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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