Case 9-2014: A 34-year-old woman with increasing dyspnea

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1149-11457

  Saukkonen, Kai ^a,b   Tan, Timothy C ^a,b   Sharma, Amita ^a,b   Channick, Richard N ^a,b   Murali, Mandakolathur R ^a,b   Zukerberg, Lawrence R ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BOSENTAN; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE PLUS SALMETEROL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; METOPROLOL; PREDNISONE; PROSTACYCLIN; SALBUTAMOL; SILDENAFIL; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COUGHING; DECREASED APPETITE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG SWELLING; LUNG INJURY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SATIETY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN; BLOOD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; PATHOLOGY; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LYMPH NODES; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RAYNAUD DISEASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 84896474009     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1305992     Document Type: Article

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