An Elderly Woman With Dyspnea

An Elderly Woman With Dyspnea.

A woman in her 70s with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and venous thromboembolismpresented to the hospital with 2months of progressivelyworsening dyspnea onexertion.Hermedical historywas significant for a singleepisodeof lower-extremitydeep venous thrombosis during a prior hospitalization, complicated by multiple subsegmental pulmonary emboli. At that time, she underwent inferior ve...

A 51-year-old woman with dyspnea.

A 51-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with dyspnea, which began 4 days ago. She reports no chest pain, palpitations, hemoptysis, fevers, chills, weight loss, recent travel, immobility, or surgery. One week ago she noticed cramping in her right calf, but that has since resolved. Her history includes hypertension, hypothyroidism, and immune-mediated glomerulonephritis with prot...

A Woman with Dyspnea and Hemoptysis

A 55-year-old female presented to the emergency department at a small community hospital with cough, fever, dyspnea and blood-streaked sputum. A chest radiograph was ordered. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and discharged home with antibiotics. She returned three days later, afebrile, with worsening dyspnea and gross hemoptysis. She was found to have a murmur reported as chronic but had never ...

An elderly woman with an age-old disease.

An unconscious elderly woman with an abnormal electrocardiogram.