Case 20-1997

Autor: Robert E. Scully, Eugene J. Mark, L. D. Phillips, William F. McNeely, Sally H. Ebeling
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: New England Journal of Medicine. 336:1895-1903
ISSN: 1533-4406
0028-4793
DOI: 10.1056/nejm199706263362608
Popis: Presentation of Case A 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of increasing dyspnea and a cough. The patient had been well until five months earlier, when dyspnea developed with a cough that produced minimal amounts of clear sputum. An antibiotic was prescribed, but it was ineffective. Another antibiotic was administered three weeks later, again without success. The dyspnea worsened over the next few weeks, and the patient could not play golf or maintain his active lifestyle. Seven weeks before the current admission, the patient entered another hospital. The temperature was 38.1°C. The white-cell count was 17,100 per cubic . . .
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