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Metabolic Mysteries: A 57-year-old man with vomiting and worsening confusion

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Show Notes

Too Much of a Good Thing - A 57-year-old man presents with rapidly progressive confusion, but the diagnosis isn’t where most adult physicians would look.

Follow the step-by-step clinical reasoning with Dr Mark Wijnen and see if you can solve it.

Read the paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcps2510060

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