General medicine case-8
This is an online e-log book to discuss our patient's de-identified health data shared after taking his/her/guardian's informed consent. Here we discuss our individual patient's problems through series of inputs from available global online community of experts with an aim to solve those patient's clinical problems with collective current best evidence based inputs. Date of admission: 20/11/2021 A 48 year old male who is farmer by occupation came to the OPD with chief complaints of bilateral pedal edema and pain in the abdomen since 20 days. History of present illness: The patient was apparently asymptomatic 10 years back when he started developing depression and was addicted to alcohol. 9 years back he made a suicide attempt by consuming poison for which he was brought to Kamineni and treated. An year later he again made a suicide attempt where he consumed sleeping pills and he was treated accordingly. 5 years back he had pain in the abdomen following which he was dia