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A 67-year-old woman develops oliguria and a creatinine rise from 84 to 310 micromol/L after several days of septic shock. Urinalysis shows 2+ blood but no signi…
A 58-year-old man with chronic kidney disease presents with weakness. Serum potassium is 7.1 mmol/L, and the laboratory result has been confirmed on a repeat no…
A 35-year-old man reports drinking approximately 6 L of water daily because of anxiety about dehydration. He is alert, euvolaemic and not taking diuretics or an…
A 29-year-old man presents with facial puffiness, dark urine and ankle swelling. He had an impetigo-like skin infection 18 days ago, and his blood pressure is 1…
A 72-year-old man is found to have a serum creatinine of 286 micromol/L, compared with 98 micromol/L 3 months earlier. He reports six months of poor urinary str…
An 8-year-old child has written documentation of two valid diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis doses given at 2 and 4 months of age, but no subsequent doses…
A 10-week pregnant woman is found to be non-immune to rubella during antenatal screening. She has no symptoms and has never had an immediate hypersensitivity re…
A 10-month-old child presents for routine care after recently arriving in Australia, and the parents have no written immunisation records. The child appears wel…
A 34-year-old woman with known autoimmune Addison disease presents with vomiting, abdominal pain and profound weakness. Her blood pressure is 82/48 mmHg, sodium…
A 63-year-old woman reports several months of bone pain and difficulty climbing stairs. She has no focal neurological deficit. Serum calcium is 2.19 mmol/L (2.1…
A 48-year-old woman has a slowly enlarging thyroid nodule, intermittent diarrhoea and facial flushing. Her TSH is 1.6 mIU/L (0.4–4.0), and serum calcitonin is 1…
A 61-year-old man has a 1.5-cm thyroid nodule with a solid markedly hypoechoic appearance, irregular margins and punctate echogenic foci on ultrasound. His TSH…
A 58-year-old man is found to have a serum calcium concentration of 2.78 mmol/L (2.15–2.55) on two occasions. His phosphate is 0.72 mmol/L (0.80–1.50), creatini…
A 42-year-old woman has progressive fatigue, reduced appetite and dizziness when standing. Her serum sodium is 127 mmol/L (135–145), potassium is 5.8 mmol/L (3.…
A 46-year-old man notices sudden hearing loss in his left ear on waking 48 hours ago. He has no pain, discharge or recent upper respiratory infection, and otosc…
A 15-year-old boy has six months of recurrent, predominantly right-sided epistaxis and progressive right nasal obstruction. He has no fever or facial pain, and…
A 14-month-old child has fever and irritability after several days of coryza. The child is pulling at the right ear and wakes repeatedly overnight. Otoscopy sho…
A 64-year-old woman develops sudden, profound painless loss of vision in her left eye 90 minutes before assessment. The left pupil has a relative afferent pupil…
A 71-year-old man develops severe pain and blurred vision in his right eye over two hours. He reports coloured haloes around lights and nausea; examination show…
A 38-year-old woman experiences brief episodes of spinning when she rolls over in bed or looks upward. Each episode lasts less than a minute, and she is well be…