The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
PreviousPrevious
Volume 339:1228-1236 October 22, 1998 Number 17
NextNext

Case 32-1998— An 83-Year-Old Woman with Long-Standing Asthma and Rapidly Progressing Pneumonia
Richard L. Kradin, and Eugene J. Mark

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-Purchase this article

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited

More Information
-PubMed Citation
Presentation of Case

An 83-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of asthma complicated by pneumonia that was unresponsive to antibiotic treatment.

The patient had had asthma since childhood, complicated by seven bouts of pneumonia by the age of 12 years and several episodes of pneumonia or bronchitis as an adult. There was a long history of hypertension and a 10-year history of atrial fibrillation for which she received no treatment. For two years she had had type 2 diabetes mellitus and unstable angina pectoris. She had never smoked and had no history of tuberculosis, recent chest pain, chronic cough or production . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Richard L. Kradin's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

References



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.