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Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become an important branch of healthcare worldwide. Apart from their undeniable advantages, the virtual visits lack physical examination, which can lead to important diagnostic mistakes. We hereby present a case of a pediatric patient whose weig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9083262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547550 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.856911 |
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author | Sabiniewicz, Anna Lubocka, Paulina Sabiniewicz, Robert |
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description | As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become an important branch of healthcare worldwide. Apart from their undeniable advantages, the virtual visits lack physical examination, which can lead to important diagnostic mistakes. We hereby present a case of a pediatric patient whose weight gain, initially attributed to a sedentary lifestyle was, in fact, due to sub-acute right heart failure in the context of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm. The condition was not diagnosed until the patient presented at the emergency. The boy was successfully treated with two percutaneous interventions and returned to his previous stature. |
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spelling | pubmed-90832622022-05-10 Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine Sabiniewicz, Anna Lubocka, Paulina Sabiniewicz, Robert Front Pediatr Pediatrics As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become an important branch of healthcare worldwide. Apart from their undeniable advantages, the virtual visits lack physical examination, which can lead to important diagnostic mistakes. We hereby present a case of a pediatric patient whose weight gain, initially attributed to a sedentary lifestyle was, in fact, due to sub-acute right heart failure in the context of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm. The condition was not diagnosed until the patient presented at the emergency. The boy was successfully treated with two percutaneous interventions and returned to his previous stature. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9083262/ /pubmed/35547550 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.856911 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sabiniewicz, Lubocka and Sabiniewicz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Sabiniewicz, Anna Lubocka, Paulina Sabiniewicz, Robert Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title | Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title_full | Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title_fullStr | Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title_full_unstemmed | Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title_short | Case Report: Right Heart Failure Mistaken for Obesity—A Fault of Telemedicine |
title_sort | case report: right heart failure mistaken for obesity—a fault of telemedicine |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9083262/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547550 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.856911 |
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