Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma

The peril of incorrect diagnostic labelling is highlighted by this case of acute respiratory distress caused by a retrosternal recurrent goitre. An initial clinical diagnosis which cannot be fully validated on investigation with unexpected or poor response to treatment should prompt consideration an...

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Autores principales: Balakrishnan, Santosh, Doddi, Sudeendra, Helme, Sophie, Sinha, Prakash
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/498372
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author Balakrishnan, Santosh
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spelling pubmed-29104602010-07-29 Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma Balakrishnan, Santosh Doddi, Sudeendra Helme, Sophie Sinha, Prakash Case Rep Med Case Report The peril of incorrect diagnostic labelling is highlighted by this case of acute respiratory distress caused by a retrosternal recurrent goitre. An initial clinical diagnosis which cannot be fully validated on investigation with unexpected or poor response to treatment should prompt consideration and investigation for an alternative explanation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2910460/ /pubmed/20671942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/498372 Text en Copyright © 2010 Santosh Balakrishnan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Balakrishnan, Santosh
Doddi, Sudeendra
Helme, Sophie
Sinha, Prakash
Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title_full Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title_fullStr Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title_full_unstemmed Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title_short Every Wheeze Does Not Merit a Puffer! Case of an Overnight Cure of Chronic Asthma
title_sort every wheeze does not merit a puffer! case of an overnight cure of chronic asthma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/498372
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