1 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Departments of 2 ... correspondence to this author at: 3477 Euler Way, Rm. 3014, Pittsburgh, PA.
What Is Your Guess?
Assuming It Was There, Where Did It Go? Li Liu,1 Qian Sun,2 and Octavia M. Peck Palmer1,3*
CASE DESCRIPTION A 60-year-old woman with epilepsy and a long-term alcohol addiction presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of nausea and vomiting. On day 2 of hospitalization, the patient complained of muscle weakness, dizziness, and intermittent abdominal pain. Laboratory results are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Patient plasma chemistry proļ¬le during hospitalization.