70-year-old woman with chronic diarrhea
R Estévez-González1, Á Romo Navarro2, Á Sánchez Castaño1
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo, Spain.
Abstract:
We present the clinical case of a seventy-year-old female patient with hypertension in treatment with olmesartan since one year ago and no other past medical history of interest. She was hospitalized in the internal medicine department in order to study constitutional symptoms which consisted of confirmed weight loss of 13 kg, chronic diarrhea, loss of appetite, asthenia, and intermittent colic-like abdominal pain. After an initial screening for neoplastic disease, other possible options were considered.
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