A Can’t-Miss Diagnosis at an Unusual Age: An Adolescent with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis
| Autor: | Sandra E. Pruitt, Steven McKee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Auscultation Case description medicine.disease Acute onset Weight loss Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Breathing Pleuritic chest pain Diaphoretic medicine.symptom business Granulomatosis with polyangiitis |
| Zdroj: | Section on Medicine-Pediatrics Programs. |
| DOI: | 10.1542/peds.147.3_meetingabstract.611-a |
| Popis: | Case Description: A 16-year-old previously healthy male presented with acute onset, right-sided pleuritic chest pain. The pain was preceded by two days of non-productive cough, two weeks of night sweats, and an 18-pound weight loss in one year. He denied fevers but admitted to vaping tobacco and THC. He denied sick contacts and travel but had been living in a group home for three years. On arrival, he was tachycardic and tachypneic but afebrile. He was diaphoretic and breathing shallowly. On auscultation, … |
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