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Medical Grand Rounds Clinical Vignette
Matthias C. Kugler, M.D.Internal Medicine Resident
09-12-2008
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Chief Complaint
• 53 year old Caucasian male with Hepatitis C and cirrhosis, who presented to Bellevue Hospital with 8 days of abdominal pain and increasing girth
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History of Present Illness
• Right Upper Quadrant pain for 8 days, up to 8/10 intensity, aching, non-radiating, intermittent, lasting several hours, no association with nausea or vomiting.
• Increasing girth and abdominal swelling.
• He denied fever or chills
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History• Past Medical History: Hepatitis C diagnosed 15 years ago, cirrhosis since 2003, awaiting transplant Esophageal varices with endoscopic banding 2006
• Past Surgical History: none
• Family History: non-contributory
• Allergies: Penicillin – rash
• Medications: Esomeprazole 40mg daily, Furosemide 40mg daily, Aldactone 25mg daily, Lactulose 30ml bid, Propanolol 20mg tid, Acetaminophen 500mg q6h prn pain, Docusate 100mg tid
• Social History: no toxic habits, married, 2 children, no intravenous drug use
• ROS: otherwise negative
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Physical Examination• General: Ill-appearing white male in mild distress, alert and oriented x 3
• Vital Signs: BP-113/80 HR-65 RR-20-22 O2-sat 93% (room air) Temp-37.0°C
• Head/Neck: + scleral icterus
• Lungs: breath sounds decreased b/l bases, upper lungs clear to auscultation
• Abdominal: + tense, distended, diffusely tender to palpation, + fluid wave, no guarding or rebound, bowel sounds hypoactive in all 4 quadrants
• Extremities: 1-2+ pitting edema of the legs bilaterally
• Skin: + jaundice
• Remainder of physical exam normal
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Laboratory Values
Hepatic: AST 100 (7-27) ALT 43 (1-21) AP 112 (13-39) Tbili 7.7 (<1.0) DBili 5.1 (<0.4) Prot 10.3 (6.0-8.4) Alb 1.6 (3.5-5.0)
CBC: WBC 4.2 (N53%, L26%, M15%, E5%) Hb 11.1 (13-18)Hct 31.6 (35-50)MCV 112 (86-98)plt 81 (150-350)
Coags: INR 2.5 (<1.15) PTT 52 (25-38)
Basic: Na 132 (140-145)
ABG: pH 7.43, pCO2 39, pO2 87, HCO- 26, O2-sat 92% (room air), Lact 1.2
Paracentesis: WBC 45 (N10%, L57%, M2%,) RBC 3350 Alb 1.0LDH 49Gram stain: gram-negative rods
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Imaging Data• PA/Lateral chest radiograph: small pleural effusions b/l, no
infiltrates, + ventral hernia
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Working Diagnosis
• Bacterial peritonitis and decompensation of cirrhosis secondary to infection.
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Hospital CourseHD#1: 1. Therapeutic paracentesis with 1.5 liter fluid femoval2. Ceftriaxon initially, when paracentesis fluid grew out
pansensitive Escherichia coli, the antibiotic was switched to Ciprofloxacin
3. Forced diuresis using intravenous furosemide with monitoring of the electrolyte status
4. Patient continously afebrile
HD#4: • Despite improving ascites, patient noticed to be more short of
breath, tachypnic and hypoxic
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Hospital courseHD #5: • ABG: pH 7.37, pCO2 43, pO2 62, HCO- 24, O2-sat 88% (room air)• PA/Lateral chest radiograph with increased diffuse patchy infiltrates b/l• Patient was placed on CPAP with supplemental O2 and transferred to the
intensive care unit
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Hospital courseHD #7: • ABG: pH 7.39, pCO2 43, pO2 48, HCO- 26, O2-sat 77% on FiO2 50%,
PaO2/FiO2 96• Patient was intubated for severe hypoxemia.• Portable AP chest radiograph with worsening diffuse patchy infiltrates
throughout both lungs
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Hospital courseHD #8-10:• Ventilation using low tidal volumes, PEEP, and permissive
hypercapnea• Setting VT 400 cc, FiO2 70-80%, PEEP 7-10 mm H2O later
increased to maximum of 14 mm H2O
• Over the next days the team was able to decrease PEEP to 8, FiO2 to 50%, VT 400 cc, with improving hypoxemia on ABG (pH 7.38, pCO2 31, pO2 84, HCO-18, O2-sat 96%
• Sputum cultures remained all negative
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Final Diagnosis
• Bacterial peritonitis and decompensation of cirrhosis secondary to infection.
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)