58-Year-Old Woman With Dry Mouth and Swollen Parotid Glands

A 58-year-old Woman with Dry Cough and Pulmonary Nodules.

CXR showed bilateral diffuse nodular opacities (3 mm to 5 mm) and a small right pleural effusion (Fig. 1a). CT of thorax showed innumerable pulmonary nodules which appeared randomly distributed throughout both lungs (Figs. 1b and 1c). They were adjacent to bronchovascular bundles (yellow arrow 1b) and perivenular nodules (yellow arrow in Fig. 1c). They demonstrated an irregular outline and most...

Drug effects on salivary glands: dry mouth.

OBJECTIVE To identify drugs associated with the complaint of dry mouth. MATERIALS AND METHODS MEDLINE was searched for papers 1980-2002 using keywords, oral, mouth, salivary, drugs, dry mouth and xerostomia, and relevant secondary references were hand-searched. RESULTS Evidence was forthcoming for a number of xerogenic drugs, especially antimuscarinic agents, some sympathomimetic agents, an...

A 58-year-old woman with progressive vertigo, deafness and weakness.

A 58-Year-Old Woman with Abdominal Symptoms and Elevated C-Reactive Protein

A 58-year-old woman presented to her primary care physician in April 2002 complaining of troubling abdominal symptoms. She described abdominal bloating and pain with frequent diarrhoea and modest weight loss. There was no history of fevers or rigors. She had a background of irritable bowel syndrome, monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGUS), ureteric stones, hysterectomy, and fract...

A 58-year old woman with recurrent productive cough and diarrhea.

(CHEST 2000; 118:1194–1197) A 58-year-old white woman with a medical history significant for hypothyroidism, hypertension, and coronary artery disease was referred for evaluation of recurrent productive cough, fever, and wheezing. During the prior 5 years, she had experienced similar episodes of respiratory illness, for which she had received 7 to 14 days of oral antibiotics and inhaled broncho...