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H M Adelman

Publications and source records attributed to H M Adelman.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2001

An obese man with anxiety, sweating, and headache.

A 47-year-old man reported becoming confused, disoriented, and anxious while driving his car. He recalled sweating and having blurred vision, palpitations, and a diffuse headache shortly before pulling to the side of the road and losing consciousness. Emergency service personnel arrived about 15 minutes later and administered a 50% solution of dextrose intravenously. On regaining consciousness, the patient had no weakness,shortness of breath, chest pain, or loss of bowel or bladder function. He had experienced a similar episode one week earlier and several others in the distant past. Each time, symptoms had been alleviated by eating.

Anxiety↗
PubMed2001

A man with a history of skin lesions and seizures.

A 38-year-old man presented with painful growths around his toenails. Since their first occurrence at age three, several had been surgically removed. He had had similar growths around his fingernails and multiple facial lesions since age seven.

Adult↗
PubMed2000

A woman with leg cramps and rash.

A 68-year-old woman presented with generalized weakness and a rash on her lower extremities. The weakness began one week earlier, shortly after treatment for leg cramps and two days before the rash appeared. She had also had blood-streaked sputum a few days before admission. There was no history of bleeding diathesis, nose bleeding, hematuria, vasculitis, muscle or joint aches, cinchonism, or exposure to tuberculosis. She denied fever, chills, night sweats, leg pain or swelling, chest pain, or abdominal pain.

Aged↗
PubMed2000

A skin lesion found by serendipity.

A 77-year-old retired postal worker presented with symptoms of recurrent aspiration pneumonia, for which he had last been seen one month earlier. Oropharyngeal dysfunction, presumably caused by previous strokes, was demonstrated by video-esophagoscopy, and a percutaneous gastrostomy tube was placed at that time.

Aged↗
PubMed2000

A man with fever, rigors, and poor oral hygiene.

A 62-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a one-week history of subjective fever and rigors. He had had epigastric pain for three weeks, for which he was taking ranitidine, and in the past two to three months had experienced night sweats, a nonproductive cough, nausea, vomiting, and a 30-lb weight loss. He denied dsypnea, chest pain, hematochezia, melena, or any change in bowel habits.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
PubMed1999

An alcoholic man with an abnormal pulse.

A 47-year-old man who smelled of alcohol presented with a three-day history of sore throat. He had not had fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, rhinorrhea, cough, chest pain, or palpitations. On evaluation in the emergency department, he was found to have tachycardia and an irregular pulse.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1999

Pulmonary infiltrates in an elderly man.

An 80-year-old man presented with subjective fever, chronic cough occasionally producing scant yellow sputum, retrosternal pleuritic pain, and dyspnea on walking one block. Since symptom onset three months earlier, he had lost 20 pounds; he had had two loose stools a day, fatigue, malaise, and anorexia but not hemoptysis, nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, hematochezia, or melena. He denied paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea or orthopnea. As far as could be ascertained, he not recently been exposed to tuberculosis or any other infectious disease. He had previously been seen at another clinic and had completed a 10-day trial of erythromycin (500 mg p.o. q12 h) without apparent change in symptoms.

Acinetobacter Infections↗