A 49-Year-Old Woman With Exertional Dyspnea and Dizziness

Nina Liu; Ahmadreza Ghasemiesfe; Fatma Sen; Edris Aman; Ezra A Amsterdam; Sandhya Venugopal

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2022.10.040

A 49-Year-Old Woman With Exertional Dyspnea and Dizziness

Chest. 2023 Apr;163(4):e157-e162. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.10.040.

Authors

Nina Liu¹, Ahmadreza Ghasemiesfe², Fatma Sen², Edris Aman², Ezra A Amsterdam², Sandhya Venugopal²

Affiliations

¹ University of California (Davis) Medical Center, Sacramento, CA. Electronic address: niliu@ucdavis.edu.
² University of California (Davis) Medical Center, Sacramento, CA.

Abstract

A 49-year-old woman with a history of right breast cancer status post radiation therapy presented to our ED with increasing chest pain, exertional dyspnea, fatigue, and dizziness for several weeks. She denied syncope or near-syncope, and she had no personal or family history of cardiac disease. Her outpatient medications included tamoxifen and venlafaxine.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Chest Pain / diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Dizziness* / diagnosis
Dizziness* / etiology
Dyspnea / diagnosis
Dyspnea / etiology
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Syncope*
Tamoxifen

Substances

Tamoxifen