title: A 37-year-old Woman with Altered Mental Status and Urinary Frequency.
abstract: We present a case report of a patient who initially presented with altered mental status and significant urinary frequency. Over the course of her emergency department stay, she then developed tachycardia out of proportion to a new fever along with a respiratory alkalosis. Although each objective finding has a broad differential diagnosis, thyroid storm was the only unifying diagnosis when all findings were present.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Deepa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ravikumar
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lin