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Featured Case: March - April 2012

A young woman with respiratory failure and tachycardia.
A young woman was admitted with respiratory failure and tachycardia. Twelve days before, she had developed symptoms of pharyngitis and was diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis. When her throat pain worsened and her oral intake decreased, prednisone was prescribed. She subsequently developed neck pain and chest tightness. She presented to the hospital with pleuritic chest pain and shallow breathing. Her respirations were 24 per minute and the oxygen saturation 80%. A chest radiograph is shown. Read More »

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