A 45-Year-Old Male with New Onset Shortness of Breath

A 4-Year-Old Boy With Shortness of Breath

A 4-year-old boy presented to the general practitioner (GP) with a 24-hour history of progressively worsening shortness of breath (SOB). Over this time period, a productive cough and fever had also developed. The patient had no history of respiratory disease and there were no sick contacts. For the last fortnight, however, his mother reported that he has " not been his usual self " : appearing ...

A 36-year-old woman with shortness of breath.

A 64-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain for one month. Her shortness of breath had gradually worsened to the point where she was feeling short of breath while at rest. She described her chest pain as sharp, worse with deep inspiration, and located nea...

A 53-year-old man with recent onset shortness of breath and electrocardiographic changes.

Funding This work was supported by the European Union (EU FP6-2005-LIFESCIHEALTH-6; STREP contract number 037631; J.A.K. and M.M.M.) and has been partially funded by Fondation LeDucq (Transatlantic Network, 2009-2014, M.M.M.) N.Z. is supported by a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization and by a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific R...

Photo Quiz: A 69-Year-Old Immunosuppressed Male with Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath.

Acute onset of extreme shortness of breath.

A 33-year-old male presented via ambulance to the emergency department (ED) with extreme shortness of breath. A 12-lead electrocardiogram showed a heart rate of 158 beats/minute and atrial fibrillation with frequent runs of right bundle branch block-type aberrant conduction. Notable labs included a brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level of 1167 pg/ml (<100pg/ml) and Troponin I of 1.23 ng/ml (<0....