Results for “ascites”

A 4-year-old boy has had two weeks of puffiness around his eyes that is worst on waking and improves during the day, and for the past few days his ankles have b…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old man is on the surgical ward on the second day after an elective inguinal hernia repair. He is anxious and sweating, his hands tremble, and he has…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 54-year-old man is admitted eighteen hours after his last drink, anxious, sweating and coarsely tremulous, with a pulse of 108/min and a blood pressure of 150…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 29-year-old woman is admitted with nausea, jaundice and right upper-quadrant discomfort. Her alanine aminotransferase is 9200 U/L (5–40), aspartate aminotrans…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 52-year-old man presents to the emergency department with sudden onset of vomiting blood and lightheadedness. He reports passing black stools over the past fe…

Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common

A 75-year-old male presents to the clinic with generalized fatigue, weight loss, and chronic abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago…

Year 4 · Pre-internship · common