Intractable hiccups: How can chest X-ray help?

We describe the case of a young male presenting with hiccups refractory to antacids. Due to high index of suspicion was evaluated with a chest X-ray which revealed pericardial effusion. The effusion was drained, and the hiccups resolved. It is a teaching moment, to consider simple imaging, i.e., che...

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Autores principales: Goyal, Laxmi Kant, Mathur, Nitish, Mathur, Ajay, Jain, Gunja, Singhal, Sunny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10451591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37636168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_902_22
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author Goyal, Laxmi Kant
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description We describe the case of a young male presenting with hiccups refractory to antacids. Due to high index of suspicion was evaluated with a chest X-ray which revealed pericardial effusion. The effusion was drained, and the hiccups resolved. It is a teaching moment, to consider simple imaging, i.e., chest X-ray in patients with refractory hiccups to rule out more serious underlying causes.
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spelling pubmed-104515912023-08-26 Intractable hiccups: How can chest X-ray help? Goyal, Laxmi Kant Mathur, Nitish Mathur, Ajay Jain, Gunja Singhal, Sunny J Family Med Prim Care Case Report We describe the case of a young male presenting with hiccups refractory to antacids. Due to high index of suspicion was evaluated with a chest X-ray which revealed pericardial effusion. The effusion was drained, and the hiccups resolved. It is a teaching moment, to consider simple imaging, i.e., chest X-ray in patients with refractory hiccups to rule out more serious underlying causes. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-06 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10451591/ /pubmed/37636168 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_902_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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