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60 year old woman with fever, cold cough and headache

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 60 year old woman with fever, cold cough and headache September 14, 2023 Hi, I am syed khaja harooni, 5th semester medical student.  This is an online E-log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's signed informed consent. Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patients clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs.This e-log book also reflects my patient centered online learning portfolio and your valuable inputs on comment box is welcome.  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.   CONSENT AND DE-IDENTIFICATION :  The patient and the att
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acute pancreatitis with alcohol dependency

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Syed khaja harooni acute pancreatitis with alcohol dependency September 12, 2023 This is a case of 45 yr old male came to general surgery op with a chief complaints of of pain in abdomen ,fever , vomitings since one day  Patient was apparently asymptomatic one day back after which he started developing pain in abdomen ( colicky type,non radiating,no aggregating or relieving factors  H istory of present illness H/o of vomitings (4 episodes) Bilious non projectile H/o fever low grade  No h/o loose stools No h/o outside food consumption  He had similar complaints in 2018 and had hospital admission  Past history  Alcohol consumption and have alcohol dependency : He started consuming alcohol in the form of whisky because of peer pressure  H/o alcohol consumption (1 beer/ day ) Consumes alcohol from 16 yrs  Had a break of 2 years of drinking whisky and again started drinking in a occasion from past 8months (4-6units/day ) Tobacco consumption (smoking): 4 yrs back (1 packet /2-3days) Sleep hi
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