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- Giuseppe Famularo, Pasquale Sordillo, Alessandro Stasolla, and Maria Gabriella Parisi.
- Department of Internal Medicine, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: gfamularo@scamilloforlanini.rm.it.
- Chest. 2017 Oct 1; 152 (4): e95-e97.
Case PresentationA 58-year-old woman with COPD, cor pulmonale, diabetes, and hypertension had a productive cough of greenish and purulent sputum, low-grade fever, and shortness of breath. Medications were metformin, losartan, cholecalciferol, folic acid, a multivitamin, fluticasone by inhalation, and, as needed, ipratropium by inhalation. She lived alone and worked as a physician, had received that year's seasonal influenza vaccine, was a heavy smoker, did not drink alcohol or use illicit drugs, and had no personal or family history of allergy and autoimmunity.Copyright © 2017 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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