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?
isn't this called ortner's syndrome? kinda remember the details faintly... heard them in some podcast or read some blog...
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dammit... wrong probably. time to hit up google....
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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ReplyDeleteThe 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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ReplyDeletemay be infective thoracic aortic aneurysm
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