A 55-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with acute pleuritic chest pain. The pain was located on the left side of the sternum. Her relevant medical history revealed gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Physical examination, laboratory investigations and a plain chest radiograph were ...
Acute chest pain caused by pericardial fat necrosis The article focuses on the case of a 55-year-old woman who was taken to the emergency department due to acute pleuritic chest pain. It states that the woma... dHDAF Van,HW Van Es,GA Cirkel,... - 《Thorax》 被引量: 24发表: 2010年...
A 60-year-old woman presented with acute-onset, progressively worsening shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain for 3 days. She also complained of a dry cough, but no fever or chills. There was no history of swelling of the feet; nor was there a history of nausea or diarrhea. She...
Acutepericarditisis an inflammatory process of thepericardiumcharacterized by vascularized granulation tissue, fibrin, and fluid accumulation.4,21Diagnostic criteria include (1) acute onset pleuriticchest pain, (2) classic concave upward ST elevation with PR depression on electrocardiography, (3) apericardi...
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presenting as acute pleuritic chest pain: a case report Background Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is a rare and serious manifestation of chronic kidney inflammation that can be life-threatening if not recogn... J Chow,R Kabani,K Lithgow,... - 《Journal of Med...
A 29 year old white man presented to the emergency room with new onset pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath. He was initially diagnosed as having viral pericarditis and was treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. A few weeks later he developed recurrent chest pain with cough...
P Saluja,V Patel,Nitesh GautamJose Diego CaceresNikhil K MeenaAnand N Venkata - 《Chest the Journal of Circulation Respiration & Related Systems》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 A 27-Year-Old Woman with a Fever, Cough, and Pleuritic Chest Pain Case 6a: A 27-year-old woman with a history of ...
Classic findings of pleuritic chest pain and productive cough may not be evident in the cancer patient. Rather, nonspecific symptoms of fever and malaise may herald the development of pneumonia in this population. Adaptations to chronic hypoxia manifest as polycythemia, headaches, and potentially right...
retrosternal pleuritic chest pain pain is worse: -on inspiration -supine position -with activity pericardial friction rub tachycardia tachypnea chest pain is best described as pleuritic when it: increases with deep inspiration and decreases when the patient sits up and leans forward ...
Case presentation A 33-year-old Caucasian man presented to casualty with sudden onset of severe pleuritic chest pain associated with haemoptysis. He suffered from progressive dyspnoea and had felt generally unwell for a month before this presenta- tion. He had received three courses of...