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A 31-year-old woman with substance-use disorder was admitted to this hospital because of fevers and chest pain. CT of the chest revealed multiple thick-walled nodular opacities throughout both lungs. Diagnostic tests were performed, and management decisions were made.
BACKGROUND
Although thoracic aortic dissections are uncommon in young patients, they must be considered in the differential diagnosis in the presence of chest pain and abnormal vital signs. Although computed tomography angiography is the test of choice for thoracic dissection in the emergency
Brugada syndrome is a disease with a high risk of sudden cardiac death. Genetic mutations of the cardiac sodium channel are linked to the characteristic electrocardiogram abnormality of Brugada syndrome. Dysfunction of the mutated sodium channel is reported to be temperature-sensitive. We
We describe the case of a 23-year-old man presenting with recurrent pleuritic chest pain and prolonged fever after electrophysiology testing and placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator because of a suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. The clinical suspicion was
Besli GE, Yıldırım S, Akalın İ, Ayhan Yİ, Kısıoğlu M, Berdeli A. Fever-induced Brugada syndrome in a 9-year-old boy presenting with acute chest pain. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 571-575. Brugada syndrome, an arrhythmogenic disease, occurs due to mutations involving cardiac sodium channels. It is
Symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 overlap with other important illnesses affecting young adults. We report a case of a 17-year old male presenting to the emergency department in the midst of a pandemic with symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019. He had fever, dyspnea, chest pain, and myalgias,
A 52-year-old man was referred to our hospital for cough, fever, chest pain, and progressive dyspnea. He has worked as a full-time security staff at a community center and was in a normal state of health until 11 months prior to referral when he began experiencing cough, expectoration, a high-grade
Can you diagnose this case of a 50-year-old male with a 10-week history of high fever, mucopurulent cough, dyspnoea, right-sided chest pain, weight loss and night sweats http://ow.ly/QFEM30h26GE.
A 53-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for treatment of fever and chest pain. Chest computed tomography showed an anterior mediastinal cystic tumor 39×57 mm in size surrounded by fat with edema and left pleural effusion. After one course of antibiotic administration, the edema of fat
The familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), also called recurrent polyserositis, is characterized by reccurrent episodes of serositis at pleura, peritoneum, and synovial membrane and fever. We present a patient with recurrent bilateral pleural effusion due to serositis attacks as a first sign of FMF. A
A 26 year old women was seen at our outpatient clinic because of fever, dyspnea, chest pain and night sweats. An echocardiography revealed a moderate pericardial effusion. Therapy with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug was started, but the patient did not improve clinically. A new left pleural
Objective In Japan, pleurodesis is often performed using OK-432. However, OK-432 may cause severe chest pain and fever. The risk factors for these complications are unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for chest pain and fever caused by pleurodesis with OK-432. Methods The
It remains a challenge to diagnose aortic dissection in primary care, as classic clinical features are not always present. This case describes an atypical presentation of aortic dissection, in which the patient walked in with pleuritic central chest pain associated with a fever and elevated
Infection with Helicobacter cinaedi can encompass a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, including fever, rash, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and meningitis. The present case demonstrates the ability of H cinaedi to masquerade as acute rheumatic fever and represents the first reported case of