Man With Chest Tightness and Breath Shortness After Activity

Acute shortness of breath and chest tightness in an elderly patient: clinical history tells it best!

Almost 50% of patients presenting with heart failure have no systolic left ventricular dysfunction and thus are diagnosed with diastolic heart failure (HF). Diastolic HF reflects an increased sensitivity to volume status and vasoreactivity of patients with underlying diastolic dysfunction, a condition commonly observed in elderly patients with numerous comorbidities. In this case report, an exa...

A 65-year-old man with shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, and recurrent pneumonia.

Recurrent pulmonary infections are common among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Imaging of the thorax beyond a routine chest radiograph, such as computed tomography imaging, should be considered for these patients. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy should also be considered for these patients, especially in cases in which respiratory cultures do not provide guidance for antibiotic th...

An elderly man with chest pain, shortness of breath, and constipation.

hospital with fractured neck of his right femur. From the 11th day after surgery he developed recurrent episodes of retrosternal and right lower chest pain associated with shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, and hiccup; the pain was aggravated by deep breathing. He had four such episodes in three days while walking with a frame. On each occasion he was given glyceryl trinitrate (600 μg subli...

A 38-year-old morbidly obese man with chest pain, shortness of breath and a numb lip.

CASE REPORT A 38 year old man presented to hospital with left chest pain and dyspnoea which had evolved over the day. The pain was intermittent and pleuritic in nature, with no accompanying cough, rigors or other acute features. He was 170 cm tall and was morbidly obese weighing 157 kg. His past medical history consisted of asthma, smoking, hypertension, angina, sleep apnoea, epilepsy and a lym...

A 16-Year-Old Boy with Acute Chest Pain and Shortness of Breath.