Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 12-2003. An 82-year-old man with dyspnea and pulmonary abnormalities

N Engl J Med. 2003 Apr 17;348(16):1574-85. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030005.

Authors

Atul Malhotra¹, Victorine V Muse, Eugene J Mark

Affiliation

¹ Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

PMID: 12700378
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030005

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Amiodarone / adverse effects*
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents / adverse effects*
Biopsy
Blood Chemical Analysis
Bundle-Branch Block / complications
Bundle-Branch Block / drug therapy
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / complications
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia / diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Dyspnea / etiology*
Heart Failure / complications*
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Lung / pathology*
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / chemically induced
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / complications
Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnosis*
Male
Pleural Effusion / complications
Pleural Effusion / diagnostic imaging
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications
Pulmonary Edema / complications
Pulmonary Edema / diagnostic imaging
Radiography

Substances

Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Amiodarone