76-Year-Old Woman With Chest Pain

49-year-old woman with chest pain.

A 76-year-old woman with paraplegia.

A-76-year old woman was admitted to the hospital with paraplegia after a collapse at home. Magnetic resonance imaging showed white matter lesions from Th4 to L2 as well as large confluent white matter lesions in the cerebrum. Within 3 days, the patient's mental status decreased dramatically and she finally died on day 16 after her fall. Autopsy examination revealed an acute myeloid leukemia, wh...

A 19-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain

Case presentation A 19-year-old woman with a medical history significant for poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (DM) (hemoglobin A1C 11.2%) presented with a 12-day history of right-sided pleuritic chest pain. One month earlier, she had developed sudden-onset fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. At the time, she did not have any gastrointestinal symptoms including epigastric pain, heartbur...

Dyspnea and Chest Pain in a 45-Year-Old Woman.

DR. JONATHAN AMELI: Today’s patient is a 45-year-old woman who presents with difficulty breathing and chest pressure. Her chest discomfort has been constant since the morning. She had mild chest pain the day before, but ignored it due to fear of visiting the emergency department (ED). The patient has a history of bipolar disorder, morbid obesity, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

An old woman with weight loss and chest pain.

Pulmonary sarcomas constitute only 0.1-0.5% of all primary lung malignancies. These tumors may derive from the lung parenchyma, bronchial tree or pulmonary arteries. The most important entity in the differential diagnosis is metastatic synovial sarcoma. A 76-years-old woman was admitted for investigation of a fever, productive cough, dyspnea, weight loss and left-sided chest pain which had been...