• Chest · Sep 2020

    Case Reports

    A 35-Year-Old Woman With Progressive Dyspnea and Cough.

    • Daniel L Dodge, Sujith V Cherian, Yasir D Ali, Albina Murzabdillaeva, Zhihong Hu, and Rosa M Estrada-Y-Martin.
    • Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX.
    • Chest. 2020 Sep 1; 158 (3): e103-e106.

    Case PresentationA 35-year-old woman with no known medical history presented to the ED with complaints of progressive dyspnea for several months. The patient also reported episodic cough with yellow to green sputum production. She denied fever, chills, weight loss, or hemoptysis. She also denied any history of previous lung diseases in her family. She denied any history of tobacco or recreational drug use or any exposures. She was originally from El Salvador and immigrated to the United States approximately 3 years earlier. She was evaluated in El Salvador at age 15 for "lung issues" but had never received a formal diagnosis.Copyright © 2020 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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