Pulmonology
- Back pain as a sign of inferior vena cava filter complications
Complications can include filter movement, fracture, occlusion, and penetration.
- Pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary embolism
A 76-year-old man is admitted with pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath 48 hours after undergoing surgery.
- Influenza update 2018–2019: 100 years after the great pandemic
A centennial year update on immunization, epidemiology, transmission, and treatment of influenza.
- Shortness of breath, fever, cough, and more in an elderly woman
The patient’s many problems include ventricular tachycardia, requiring an implanted cardioverter-defi brillator and amiodarone.
- Which patients with a parapneumonic effusion need a chest tube?
Hospitalized patients with pneumonia who develop a complicated effusion or empyema need one.
- ‘Dry drowning’ and other myths
Drowning is a common and often preventable cause of death, especially in children. But dry drowning is a myth.
- Evaluating suspected pulmonary hypertension: A structured approach
With a myriad of causes and nonspecifi c symptoms, pulmonary hypertension needs a methodic diagnostic approach.
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: What primary care physicians need to know
This devastating and fatal lung disease generally affects older adults, especially men, and can be mistaken for COPD.
- It takes a village to care for the patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The primary care physician can play key roles in diagnosis, referral, and long-term management.
- Physical examination in dyspnea (December 2017)
Errors occurred in Shellenberger RA, Balakrishnan B, Avula S, Ebel A, Shaik S. Diagnostic value of the physical examination in patients with dyspnea. Cleve Clin J Med 2017; 84(12):943–950.