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Case 4-2021: A 70-Year-Old Woman with Dyspnea on Exertion and Abnormal Findings on Chest Imaging by Cabot, Richard C.; Rosenberg, Eric S.; Pierce, Virginia M.; Dudzinski, David M.; Baggett, Meridale V.; Sgroi, Dennis C.; Shepard, Jo-Anne O.; Tran, Kathy M.; Roberts, Matthew B.; McDonald, Emily K.; Corpuz, Tara; Schwartzstein, Richard M.; Medoff, Benjamin D.; Sharma, Amita; Colson, Yolonda L.; Gainor, Justin; Hariri, Lida P. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A 70-year-old woman was evaluated at the pulmonary clinic of this hospital because of increasing dyspnea on exertion and abnormal findings on chest imaging.In childhood, the patient had eczema, recurrent episodes of bronchitis with a cough productive of mucus, and allergic rhinitis; these conditions abated in adulthood. Twenty years before this evaluation, she had community-acquired pneumonia. Fifteen years before this evaluation, she had an inhalation exposure to aerosolized brick and mortar at a construction site near her home; she subsequently had bronchitis that was treated with a course of nebulizers and inhaled glucocorticoids.Twelve years before this evaluation, the patient began to have episodes of coryza, nasal congestion, itchy and watery eyes, and wheezing, especially in the spring or with exposure to cats, dogs, or dust. She was seen by an allergist. Skinprick testing elicited a response to dust mites, and intradermal testing elicited a response to tree mix and dog dander. Results of pulmonary-function tests are shown in Table . Presumptive diagnoses of asthma and seasonal and environmental allergies were made. She received prescriptions for fexofenadine, mometasone, an

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Author

Cabot, Richard C.; Rosenberg, Eric S.; Pierce, Virginia M.; Dudzinski, David M.; Baggett, Meridale V.; Sgroi, Dennis C.; Shepard, Jo-Anne O.; Tran, Kathy M.; Roberts, Matthew B.; McDonald, Emily K.; Corpuz, Tara; Schwartzstein, Richard M.; Medoff, Benjamin D.; Sharma, Amita; Colson, Yolonda L.; Gainor, Justin; Hariri, Lida P.

Publisher

Massachusetts Medical Society; New England Journal of Medicine; Publons (ISSN 0096-6762)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction