A 43-Year-Old Man With Rapidly Respiratory Failure and Spontaneous Massive Hemothorax

Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax in a Child with Hemophilia

A 25-year-old patient with spontaneous hemothorax.

A 25-year-old African-American woman with a chief complaint of progressive dyspnea and cough presented to the inpatient service after her primary care physician noted a significant right-sided pleural effusion on a chest radiograph. She had a 2to 3-year history of intermittent, sharp, pleuritic chest pain radiating from the right subscapular region, across the anterior chest, and down the right...

A 50 Year Old Man with Fever and Abdominal Pain

The patient is a 50-year-old man who has been diagnosed with abdominal pain, fever, shivering and constipation with nausea and vomiting with a possible diagnosis of typhoid. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis was performed by injection of contrast agent for the patient. What is your diagnosis?

Dabigatran-Induced Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax

Spontaneous hemothorax due to anticoagulant use is extremely rare in clinical practice. Dabigatran is a novel anticoagulant to prevent stroke or thromboembolic episodes in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We report on an 83-year-old man who received dabigatran therapy (110 mg twice daily) for 7 months and developed massive spontaneous hemothorax and acute renal failure. The patien...

A 39-year-old man with hip pain and respiratory failure.

A 39-year-old man presented with progressive shortness of breath and a 1-day history of decreased urine output. He had a history of mild COPD for which he occasionally used albuterol inhalers. Over the prior 3 months, however, he had developed gradually increasing dyspnea and was using his inhalers several times a day with little relief. He also described 3 months of progressive lower extremity...