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#5goodminutes provides the answer to #KashlakChief presenting: Patient with 5 lb weight loss, recurrent esophageal strictures, & painful esophagitis. Labs creat 2.2 (up from 1.3), Ca++ 12.8.
ANSWER: milk alkali
@thecurbsiders @CPSolvers
#5goodminutes provides the answer to #KashlakChief presenting: Patient with 5 lb weight loss, recurrent esophageal strictures, & painful esophagitis. Labs creat 2.2 (up from 1.3), Ca++ 12.8.
ANSWER: milk alkali
@thecurbsiders @CPSolvers
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After presentation, I asked if the patient was taking Tums. The student had gotten the history of excess calcium carbonate intake.
The next day after withholding CaCO3, the calcium lowered to 10 and creatinine was already decreasing.
Here are some references:
After presentation, I asked if the patient was taking Tums. The student had gotten the history of excess calcium carbonate intake.
The next day after withholding CaCO3, the calcium lowered to 10 and creatinine was already decreasing.
Here are some references:
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Hypercalcemia and Milk‐Alkali Syndrome journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/artic… A case report we wrote 9 years ago
Dx Schema - Hypercalcemia clinicalproblemsolving.com/dx-schema-hype… via @CPSolvers
Hypercalcemia and Milk‐Alkali Syndrome journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/artic… A case report we wrote 9 years ago
Dx Schema - Hypercalcemia clinicalproblemsolving.com/dx-schema-hype… via @CPSolvers
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Episode 8 - Clinical Unknown with Dr. Bob Centor - Hypercalcemia clinicalproblemsolving.com/2019/01/05/epi… via @CPSolvers
In which we discuss the differential and I tell my recollection of milk alkali from the 70s.
Episode 8 - Clinical Unknown with Dr. Bob Centor - Hypercalcemia clinicalproblemsolving.com/2019/01/05/epi… via @CPSolvers
In which we discuss the differential and I tell my recollection of milk alkali from the 70s.
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