ea0038p99 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2015
Adam Safwaan
, Dhage Shaishav
, Keeler Elizabeth
, Younis Naveed
A 57-year-old female who was previously healthy was admitted to hospital with a 2-week history of abdominal pain. On admission, she was tachycardic, tachypnoeic, hypotensive, and had abdominal tenderness. Her initial investigations revealed a neutrophilia with her biochemistry showing hyponatraemia (sodium of 124 mmol/l (135145)) and normokalaemia (potassium of 4.7 mmol/l (3.55.5)). She had an urgent abdominal CT scan which showed evidence of a tubo-ovarian abscess...