A case from the library
Ten days of watery diarrhea
GastroenterologyEasy
Linda Fischer
66 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 92 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 112/68 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 16 /min
- SpO₂
- 98%
- Temperature
- 98.6 °F
How hard it is
A textbook presentation with no red herrings. The standard history questions are enough to get you there.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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