Klinicheskaia meditsina
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Klinicheskaia meditsina · Jan 2015
Case Reports[DIFFICULTIES OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS OF SEVERE COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA].
Severe community-acquired pneumonia implies the necessity of its early differential diagnostics from a wide range of nosological forms requiring not only therapeutic but also surgical treatment. The authors consider the causes of hypodiagnostics of community-acquired pneumonia and illustrate difficulties of differential diagnosis of this condition by concrete examples.
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Superior vena cava syndrome is a complex of symptoms developing as a result of disordered circulation in the superior vena cava system and impaired venous blood outflow from the upper part of the body. The classical signs of superior vena cava syndrome are cyanosis, swelling of the head, upper limbs and upper chest, dilatation of subcutaneous veins, apnea, hoarseness, cough, etc. Diagnostics of superior vena cava syndrome is based on chest X-ray and CT Superior vena cava syndrome is a rare condition and therefore usually unrecognized during the first examination of the patient.