A worsening dyspnea.

Case 4/2009--a 55-year-old male patient with Chagas cardiomyopathy who developed progressive worsening of dyspnea, chest pain and pulmonary interstitial infiltrate.

Three years earlier, he had started to develop progressive worsening of dyspnea, which was initially triggered by severe exertion. One year earlier, dyspnea started to be triggered by moderate exertion and was associated with tachycardic palpitations. The patient sought medical care in a primary health care unit where he was prescribed medications, the names of which he could not recall. He imp...

Liposarcoma of the retropharyngeal space with rapidly worsening dyspnea: A case report and review of the literature

Liposarcomas represent a significant proportion of soft-tissue sarcomas. However, their occurrence in the head and neck is infrequent and they are exceedingly rare in the retropharyngeal space. The present study reports the case of a 58-year-old patient with retropharyngeal liposarcoma. Uniquely, the patient presented with rapidly worsening dyspnea. The diagnosis of liposarcoma was established ...

Tracheal rupture associated with intubation in cats: 20 cases (1996-1998).

OBJECTIVE To characterize clinical features of tracheal rupture associated with endotracheal intubation in cats and to evaluate the most appropriate treatment for this condition. DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS 20 cats with a history of endotracheal intubation that subsequently developed dyspnea or subcutaneous emphysema. PROCEDURE Medical records of cats with a presumptive diagnosis ...

گزارش یک مورد لنفوم قلبی در نوجوانی دوازده ساله با علائم نارسایی قلب راست

Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma usually presents as a rapidly growing mass inside the heart chambers or myocardium. Most prevalent symptoms are arrhythmia, treatment-resistant heart failure, pericardial effusion and embolic strokes. However, secondary lymphomas are mainly infiltrated inside the heart tissue. This article is a case report of a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a 12 years old boy whose cl...

A patient with cough and progressive dyspnea

A 47-year-old man with HIV infection presented with progressive dyspnea and worsening productive cough for the past 3 weeks. He also reported increasingly purulent sputum production. The patient reported being adherent to his antiretroviral regimen, and he had an admission CD4+ cell count of 550/μL. He did not have any previous opportunistic infections, and he denied any drug or tobacco use, re...

Clinicopathological Conference p.39 A 57-Year-Old Man Presents with worsening Shortness of Breath and Fatigue over Ten Days