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Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism

Early diagnosis and effective treatment to reduce mortality is the basis of pulmonary embolism. However, the diagnosis can be easily overlooked due to nonspecific clinical presentation. We present 9 cases of pulmonary embolism manifested by a symptom suggestive of an irritating cough due to viral up...

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Autores principales: Ekici, Aydanur, İleri, Şule, Aslan, Habibe, Ekici, Mehmet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31194180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100861
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author Ekici, Aydanur
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description Early diagnosis and effective treatment to reduce mortality is the basis of pulmonary embolism. However, the diagnosis can be easily overlooked due to nonspecific clinical presentation. We present 9 cases of pulmonary embolism manifested by a symptom suggestive of an irritating cough due to viral upper respiratory tract infection (patients with no risk factors for PE). Pulmonary embolism should be considered in cases of irritating cough that does not respond to inhaler treatment, d-dimer positive and normal chest X-ray.
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spelling pubmed-65543642019-06-10 Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism Ekici, Aydanur İleri, Şule Aslan, Habibe Ekici, Mehmet Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Early diagnosis and effective treatment to reduce mortality is the basis of pulmonary embolism. However, the diagnosis can be easily overlooked due to nonspecific clinical presentation. We present 9 cases of pulmonary embolism manifested by a symptom suggestive of an irritating cough due to viral upper respiratory tract infection (patients with no risk factors for PE). Pulmonary embolism should be considered in cases of irritating cough that does not respond to inhaler treatment, d-dimer positive and normal chest X-ray. Elsevier 2019-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6554364/ /pubmed/31194180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100861 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title_full Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title_fullStr Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title_full_unstemmed Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title_short Troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
title_sort troublesome cough as the sole manifestation of pulmonary embolism
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31194180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100861
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