Case 3/2014 - 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure
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DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140102 JJSA is an 81-year-old male patient hospitalized for decompensated heart failure. At 71 years of age, he experienced progressive dyspnea that lasted for 1 month and an episode of palpitation that lasted for 1 day and arrived at at the emergency department. He gave history of undergoing cardioversion in the past. He was then referred to the outpatient clinic of the InCor in October 1995. He also reported that he had long-term pulmonary arterial hypertension and had undergone surgery for the removal of an intracranial hematoma in the past.
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