A 33-Year-Old Man With Dyspnea, Chest Pain, and a Massive Pleural Effusion. 2021

Padraig Hawkins, and Aoife Doyle, and Leo Gavin, and Aurelie Fabre, and David J Murphy, and Eleanor Dunican, and Cormac McCarthy
Department of Respiratory Medicine, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

A 33-year-old white man presented to the ED with 1-month history of worsening dyspnea. He experienced gradual onset of right-sided scapular pain and shortness of breath on exertion that progressively worsened over the course of 1 month. He had a mild nonproductive cough and intermittent subjective fevers and reported weight loss of approximately 2 kg over 1 month. He had a history of two episodes of acute pancreatitis that was thought to be autoimmune in origin. He was a never smoker; he denied illicit drug use or recent alcohol consumption. He had no known TB exposure, but his mother had a history of sarcoidosis.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D010996 Pleural Effusion Presence of fluid in the pleural cavity resulting from excessive transudation or exudation from the pleural surfaces. It is a sign of disease and not a diagnosis in itself. Effusion, Pleural,Effusions, Pleural,Pleural Effusions
D002637 Chest Pain Pressure, burning, or numbness in the chest. Precordial Catch,Precordial Catch Syndrome,Texidor's Twinge,Chest Pains,Pain, Chest,Pains, Chest,Syndrome, Precordial Catch,Texidor Twinge
D004417 Dyspnea Difficult or labored breathing. Orthopnea,Platypnea,Recumbent Dyspnea,Rest Dyspnea,Trepopnea,Breathlessness,Shortness of Breath,Breath Shortness,Dyspnea, Recumbent,Dyspnea, Rest,Dyspneas, Rest
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000077733 Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease A spectrum of systemic autoimmune diseases in which IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 plays a pathophysiologic role. It can affect multiple organs in highly variable presentations, characterized by inflammatory lesions composed of IgG4-positive PLASMA CELLS, further infiltrated by T helper cells (T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER) when linked to progressive FIBROSIS and eventual organ damage. IgG4-Related Kidney Disease,IgG4-Related Sclerosing Disease,Immunoglobulin G4-Related Kidney Disease,Immunoglobulin G4-Related Sclerosing Disease,IgG4 Related Systemic Disease,IgG4-Associated Autoimmune Disease,IgG4-RD,IgG4-Related Disease,Autoimmune Disease, IgG4-Associated,IgG4 Associated Autoimmune Disease,IgG4 Related Disease,IgG4 Related Kidney Disease,IgG4 Related Sclerosing Disease,IgG4-Associated Autoimmune Diseases,IgG4-Related Diseases,IgG4-Related Kidney Diseases,IgG4-Related Sclerosing Diseases,Immunoglobulin G4 Related Disease,Immunoglobulin G4 Related Kidney Disease,Immunoglobulin G4 Related Sclerosing Disease,Immunoglobulin G4-Related Diseases,Kidney Disease, IgG4-Related,Sclerosing Disease, IgG4-Related
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults

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