• Chest · Sep 2024

    Case Reports

    Syncope in an Otherwise Healthy 74-Year-Old Woman.

    • Zein Kattih, Mateus Fernandes, Miguel A Alvarez Villela, Stephen Machnicki, and Erica Altschul.
    • Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY. Electronic address: zkattih@northwell.edu.
    • Chest. 2024 Sep 1; 166 (3): e79e82e79-e82.

    AbstractA 74-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and peripheral artery disease and a reported diagnosis of sarcoidosis presents for an episode of syncope and shortness of breath. She had a history of sarcoidosis diagnosed on chest radiography that showed lymphadenopathy. There were no associated symptoms, and she was not previously treated for sarcoidosis. She previously smoked and had quit smoking 9 years earlier.Copyright © 2024 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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