Just Regular Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease? If the History Doesn't Quite Match, Rethink Your Diagnosis.

Autor: Hubbard, Nicole, Wysozan, Timothy R., Zimmerman, Michelle K.
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine; Nov2019, p460-463, 4p
Abstrakt: The article presents a case study of a 55-year-old female patient with alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency. Topics discussed include the medical history and symptoms reported by the patient which her primary care practitioner initially attributed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, results of the patient's radiography test and serum protein electrophoresis after she sought for a second medical opinion, and the diagnostic testing considerations that need to be acknowledged by physicians.
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