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ArticleCureus2024

The Parallel World of Dyspnea: A Case Report.

Flávia Baduy, Lenia F Costa, Sofia L Ferreira, Frederico Rocha, Avelina Moniz

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Flávia BaduyTejo Family Health Unit, São José Local Health Unit, Loures, PRT.
Lenia F CostaTejo Family Health Unit, São José Local Health Unit, Loures, PRT.
Sofia L FerreiraTejo Family Health Unit, São José Local Health Unit, Loures, PRT.
Frederico RochaTejo Family Health Unit, São José Local Health Unit, Loures, PRT.
Avelina MonizTejo Family Health Unit, São José Local Health Unit, Loures, PRT.
Sydney Local Health District · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dyspnea can be found as a symptom of a wide range of diseases. Clinical thinking usually leads us to more common or frequent syndromes and diseases. This case report alerts us to keep investigating when faced with therapeutic failure or the arising of new symptoms. The subject in this case had dyspnea as an initial presentation of his disease and was treated initially as a case of heart dysfunction. Nevertheless, because his symptoms did not respond to the treatment and even got worse, he was sent to the emergency room where he was medicated and discharged with the same diagnostic hypothesis. In light of a new characteristic symptom - ptosis - the hospital team expanded its clinical and laboratory investigation to neuromuscular diseases, reaching out the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.

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autoimmune diseaseclinical case reportclinical thinkingdiagnostic reasoningrespiratory distress

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PMID38481890
PMCPMC10933944
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