An 84-Year-Old Man With Progressive Dyspnea and an Abnormal Chest CT Scan

An 84-Year-Old Man With Progressive Dyspnea and an Abnormal Chest CT Scan

An 84-year-old man without a history of smoking presented with progressive dyspnea of 6 months' duration accompanied by fatigue and unintentional weight loss. He denied fever, chills, chest pain, hemoptysis, rash, joint pains, or muscle aches. He had multiple hospitalizations for similar presen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chest 2017-08, Vol.152 (2), p.e45-e49
Hauptverfasser: Fakih, Hafiz Abdul Moiz, Samra, Yasser, Ataya, Ali, Prasad, Ashish, Papierniak, Eric, Wakefield, Dara, Urbine, Daniel
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Sprache:eng
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Aged, 80 and over
Dyspnea - etiology
Humans
Immunoglobulin G
Lung Diseases - diagnostic imaging
Lung Diseases - etiology
Male
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:An 84-year-old man without a history of smoking presented with progressive dyspnea of 6 months' duration accompanied by fatigue and unintentional weight loss. He denied fever, chills, chest pain, hemoptysis, rash, joint pains, or muscle aches. He had multiple hospitalizations for similar presentations that were diagnosed as pneumonia. History was significant for diastolic heart failure, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
ISSN:0012-3692
1931-3543
DOI:10.1016/j.chest.2017.03.013