A Typical Atypical Pneumonia

Not your typical pneumonia!

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 52-year-old gentleman presented to accident and emergency with a 1-week history of sore throat. He had felt generally unwell and feverish the day prior to admission with a cough productive of yellow sputum. On examination he looked lethargic, had a temperature of 38°C and was tachycardic. Medical history included coarctation of the aorta repair in adolescence which subseque...

Atypical cause of a typical chest pain

A 56 year old African American female who had a past medical history of transient ischemic attack in 2006 presented in our emergency department with first episode of sudden onset of severe central chest pain radiating to both arms , exaggerated by exertion, without any relieving factors, associated with nausea and sweating. She was taking baby aspirin, folic acid and multivitamin regularly. She...

Typical and atypical AIS. Pathogenesis.

AIS hypothesis has the right to recognition, if it explains the transition of "healthy" vertebra column into status of "scoliotic" one. AIS is the most investigated disease in the history of orthopedics, but up the present time there is no clear explanation of some its phenomena: vertebra column mono-form deformation along with its poly etiology character, interrelation of its origin and develo...

Primary Atypical Pneumonia

Primary atypical pneumonia.

Many recent communications to the medical literature on primary atypical pneumonia have emphasized the difficulty of differentiating that disease from other pneumonic consolidations from the roentgenogram I t is generally recognized that the various pulmonary inflammations do, on x-ray examination, have a tendency to group types: there are so-called "typical" pictures for pneumococcal lobar con...