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A 66-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department at 9 pm with severe right-sided headache, nausea and repeated vomiting that began while she was watch…
A 23-year-old man presents with a five-day history of worsening sore throat, and swallowing has become so painful that he is spitting his saliva into a cup. His…
A 74-year-old woman presents with severe pain in her left leg that began abruptly two hours ago while she was sitting watching television. She walks to the shop…
A 78-year-old man presents with three weeks of redness, warmth and itch affecting both lower legs. He is otherwise well, with long-standing varicose veins and a…
A 34-year-old man presents with five days of fever, drenching sweats, severe headache behind the eyes and aching muscles. He started work at a rural Queensland…
A 24-year-old woman of Greek background is found to have abnormal results on a pre-employment blood count. She feels well, her periods are not heavy, and she re…
A 29-year-old woman presents ten days after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery under epidural analgesia with four days of worsening headache, which she says is w…
A 66-year-old man is five days after an ultra-low anterior resection for rectal cancer and had initially been recovering well. Overnight he developed an irregul…
A 72-year-old man with hypertension and a 40 pack-year smoking history presents with sudden severe left flank pain radiating to the groin that began one hour ag…
A 68-year-old woman presents with two days of constant right upper quadrant and epigastric pain. Overnight she had two episodes of violent, uncontrollable shaki…
A 68-year-old man presents with 30 minutes of rapid palpitations and light-headedness. Three years ago he had a heart attack treated with a coronary artery sten…
A 61-year-old man presents with four days of fever, a dry cough and increasing breathlessness. His wife reports he has been muddled since yesterday and has pass…
A 76-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after losing consciousness while pushing his lawnmower up a slope. His wife reports he went pale and co…
A 38-year-old woman presents with two weeks of pain in the front of her neck radiating to her jaw, together with palpitations, sweating and 2 kg of weight loss.…
A 23-year-old man presents because his urine has turned dark brown, which he noticed this morning. Two days ago he developed a sore throat and runny nose, which…
A 58-year-old man is reviewed after routine blood tests show ALT 68 U/L (<40), AST 44 U/L (<40) and GGT 80 U/L (<60). He has type 2 diabetes and hypertension, h…
A 38-year-old woman has recurrent episodes of visible haematuria, but her renal function is normal and urine protein excretion is minimal. The episodes begin wi…
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 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…
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