55-year-old Male with Exertional Dyspnea

INTRODUCTION: Dyspnea is a common presenting complaint for many patients in the emergency department. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with type I diabetes presented to the emergency department with one month of intermittent palpitations and dyspnea. His lungs were clear to auscultation, and his...

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Autores principales: Friedman, Eric R., Gatz, J. David, Dezman, Zachary D.W., Bontempo, Laura J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
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Clinicopathological Cases from Maryland
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32426649
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.3.46393
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description INTRODUCTION: Dyspnea is a common presenting complaint for many patients in the emergency department. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with type I diabetes presented to the emergency department with one month of intermittent palpitations and dyspnea. His lungs were clear to auscultation, and his chest radiograph was normal. DISCUSSION: This case takes the reader through the differential diagnosis and systematic work-up of dyspnea with discussion of the diagnostic study, which ultimately led to this patient’s diagnosis and successful treatment.
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spelling pubmed-72199832020-05-18 55-year-old Male with Exertional Dyspnea Friedman, Eric R. Gatz, J. David Dezman, Zachary D.W. Bontempo, Laura J. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Clinicopathological Cases from Maryland INTRODUCTION: Dyspnea is a common presenting complaint for many patients in the emergency department. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old man with type I diabetes presented to the emergency department with one month of intermittent palpitations and dyspnea. His lungs were clear to auscultation, and his chest radiograph was normal. DISCUSSION: This case takes the reader through the differential diagnosis and systematic work-up of dyspnea with discussion of the diagnostic study, which ultimately led to this patient’s diagnosis and successful treatment. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7219983/ /pubmed/32426649 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2020.3.46393 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Friedman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_sort 55-year-old male with exertional dyspnea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219983/
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