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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

QUIZ 6:

A 54 year old male patient,

known Hypertensive, Ischaemic heart disease, had undergone CAG – PTCA to LAD about 8 mnths back.

Now presents with

H/o Fever – low grade, on and off for last 6 mnths, being treated on out patient basis with multiple antibiotics;

H/o 1 episode of giddiness/ black-out about 2 months back;

H/o hoarseness of voice since last 3 weeks, IDL done: suggestive of Left vocal cord palsy; followed by

H/o dysphagia, to both solids and liquids, sudden in onset, since today morning.

What is your diagnosis?

6 comments:

  1. isn't this called ortner's syndrome? kinda remember the details faintly... heard them in some podcast or read some blog...

    :(

    dammit... wrong probably. time to hit up google....

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  2. Injury to recurrent laryngeal nerve due to recent chest surgery. the fever sounds reminiscent of dressler's syndrome but pt would have more chest pain and dyspnea.

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  3. The fever is because he had a mycotic aneurysm.... infected. N so we couldn't do a stenting of the aneurysm. He had to undergo a surgical repair which he couldn't withstand...

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  4. may be infective thoracic aortic aneurysm

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