A 74-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea

Ibrahim Khatim; Marc A Judson; Arkar Htoo; Amit Chopra

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.020

A 74-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea

Chest. 2023 Sep;164(3):e75-e78. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.020.

Authors

Ibrahim Khatim¹, Marc A Judson², Arkar Htoo³, Amit Chopra²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. Electronic address: khatimi@amc.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY.

PMID: 37689477
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.04.020

Abstract

A 74-year-old man presented to the ED with progressive dyspnea, orthopnea, and bilateral leg swelling for 2 months. He denied cough, hemoptysis, fever, night sweats, or weight loss. He had history of COPD and chronic atrial fibrillation. He had a 50 pack-year smoking history and had quit 7 years prior to presentation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Atrial Fibrillation*
Cough / diagnosis
Cough / etiology
Dyspnea* / diagnosis
Dyspnea* / etiology
Fever
Hemoptysis / diagnosis
Hemoptysis / etiology
Humans
Male