A Middle-Age Woman with Sudden Onset Dyspnea
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Case 4--a 78-year-old obese woman with sudden-onset dyspnea.
Section Editor: Alfredo José Mansur ([email protected]) Associated Editors: Desidério Favarato ([email protected]) Vera Demarchi Aiello ([email protected]) A 78-year-old woman sought medical attention for severe dyspnea. She had morbid obesity, hypothyroidism, and long-standing hypertension, and was taking captopril 150 mg, furosemide 40 mg, digoxin 0.25 mg, and levothyroxine 75μg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1636-6