منابع مشابه
Unilateral cardiogenic pulmonary edema associated with acute mitral regurgitation
Case Two cases of cardiogenic unilateral pulmonary edema are reported. Both patients presented to the emergency department with dyspnea, and chest radiography revealed unilateral infiltration, which mimics pulmonary disease. However, the patients were diagnosed with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, because echocardiography showed severe mitral regurgitation with an eccentric jet. Outcome The pati...
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Received 13 July 2012 Accepted 20 September 2012 A 46-year-old man presented with dyspnoea, haemoptysis, orthopnoea and a pan-systolic murmur. His chest radiograph (see figure 1) demonstrated asymmetric pulmonary infiltrates, predominantly affecting the right-upper lobe. He was diagnosed with lobar-pneumonia but failed to improve with antibiotic therapy. Echocardiography subsequently demonstrat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1661-5