Absent Pulmonary Artery Presenting as High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male with no known past medical history presented to our emergency department complaining of difficulty breathing. A plain film chest radiograph revealed findings consistent with a tension pneumothorax. DISCUSSION: However, due to physical examination findings incons...

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Autores principales: Dillon, Douglas, Smith, Austin T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2022
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9697881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36427025
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.9.57506
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description CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male with no known past medical history presented to our emergency department complaining of difficulty breathing. A plain film chest radiograph revealed findings consistent with a tension pneumothorax. DISCUSSION: However, due to physical examination findings inconsistent with the imaging report, a computed tomography of the chest was ordered which revealed an absent right pulmonary artery. The patient was ultimately treated for high altitude pulmonary edema and discharged on nifedipine and supplementary oxygen.
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spelling pubmed-96978812022-11-28 Absent Pulmonary Artery Presenting as High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema Dillon, Douglas Smith, Austin T. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male with no known past medical history presented to our emergency department complaining of difficulty breathing. A plain film chest radiograph revealed findings consistent with a tension pneumothorax. DISCUSSION: However, due to physical examination findings inconsistent with the imaging report, a computed tomography of the chest was ordered which revealed an absent right pulmonary artery. The patient was ultimately treated for high altitude pulmonary edema and discharged on nifedipine and supplementary oxygen. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2022-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9697881/ /pubmed/36427025 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.9.57506 Text en © 2022 Dillon et al. https://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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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