Case 12-2010: An 89-year-old man with progressive dyspnea

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1522-

  Kradin, Richard L ^a,b   Digumarthy, Subba R ^a,b   Baggish, Aaron L ^a,b   Mark, Eugene J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ASBESTOS; ATORVASTATIN; CAPTOPRIL; CIMETIDINE; FUROSEMIDE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; METFORMIN; METOPROLOL; NIFEDIPINE; OXYGEN; ROSIGLITAZONE; TOLAZAMIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASBESTOSIS; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HEART ARREST; HISTORY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; PLEURA PLAQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; LUNG FIBROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLEURA; PLEURA DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASBESTOSIS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; PLEURA; PLEURAL DISEASES; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

EID: 77951467391     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0910930     Document Type: Article

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