Pulmonary Edema: Consider an Unusual Suspect.
(2019) Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology — Vol. 103, n° 1, p. 33 (2019)
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- A 58-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department for the sudden onset of dyspnea and syncope. His medical history included a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed three months earlier; the last course of “R-CHOP” chemotherapy scheme had been administered three weeks earlier. On examination, regular tachycardia was observed at 147 beats per minute, and blood pressure was 126/95 mmHg. Arterial blood gas values were measured at room air: pH 7.41, pO2 72 mmHg, pCO2 33 mmHg. C-reactive protein was slightly raised at 16 mg/L, D-dimers peaked at 12000 ng/ml (normal <500 ng/ml) and T-troponin at 588 pg/ml (normal <20 pg/mL). [...]
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Jopart, C., Hainaut, P., & Ghaye, B. (2019). Pulmonary Edema: Consider an Unusual Suspect. Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 103(1), 33. https://doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1819 (Original work published 2019)