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general medicine final practical exam-short case

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65Y/M PATIENT WITH COMPLAINT OF SOB AND DISTENSION OF ABDOMIN AND PEDAL EDEMA This is an online e-log platform to discuss case scenario of a patient with their guardians permission.  I have been given this case to solve in an attempt to understand the topic of patient clinical data analysis to develop my competency in reading and comprehending clinical data including history, clinical findings, investigations and come up with a diagnosis and treatment plan.  CHIEF COMPLAINT: A 65 years old male patient ,resident of suryapet ,mason by occupation,came to the casualty with chief complaint of shortness of breath since 5 days Distension of abdomen and pedal edema since 1 week. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: ->patient was apparently asymptomatic 1year back then she has  shortness of breath, pedal edema, distension of abdomen.She went to a local hospital and was diagnosed with renal failure and heart failure. 7 months back  patient had similar episodes and had Hb of 6 approx and 20 prbc and t

General medicine final practical exam-long case

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A 67 year old female with shortness of breadth I've been given this case to solve in an attempt to understand the topic of "patient clinical data analysis" to develop my competency in reading and comprehending clinical data including history, clinical findings, investigations, and come up with a diagnosis and treatment plan. Chief Complaint :- A 67 years old female came to OPD with chief complaints of -pedal edema since - 3months. -Shortness of breath since - 3 months - Decreased urine output since 3 months.  • History of present illness: Patient was apparently asymptomatic 1yr back then she noticed decreased  urine output.She went to a local hospital and was diagnosed as renal failure and heart failure and was on treatment. Then 3months back she noticed increased Bilateral pedal edema -pitting type, extending till ankles .  shortness of breath  Patient visited a local hospital where she has undergone 2 dialysis. Then 10 days back she visited our hospital where she has un

A 19 yr old male with fever and bodypains

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 This is an E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his guardian sign informed consent. Here we discuss our patient's clinical problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve the problem with collective current best evidence based inputs. This E log also reflect my patient centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on comment box. A 19 year old male patient came to OPD with the chief complaint of fever since 1 week. HOPI  Patient was apparently asymptomatic 1 week back then he developed fever with chills which is high grade , sudden in onset and associated with bodypains. Relieved on medication. 2 days back he was taken to outside hospital, there his platelet count was 129000 cells/mm3, yesterday count was 132000 cells/cumm and today count is 98000cells/cumm. No h/o loose stools, vomitings No h/o hematuria, dark stools  No h/o pain abdomen, giddiness  PAST HISTORY

78 year old female with giddiness and history of fall

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 This is an E log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data after taking his guardian sign informed consent. Here we discuss our patient's problem through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problem with collective current best evidence based inputs. This E log book also reflect my  patient centered online portfolio and your valuable inputs on comment box. This is a case of 78 year old female who was brought to hospital with history of giddiness since 3 days. She had history of fall 3 days ago following an injury in left hand. She was unable to walk since 1 day. She was having drowsiness and vomitings since morning. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS She was apparently normal 8 days back when she had giddiness and fall, following which she sustained injury to left hand where she developed swelling, blebs and had difficulty in walking. She had complaint of vomitings 2 episode with food as cont