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It's Christmas Eve and you are a doctor on ER - treat your patient by solving case-test.

You are a doctor on ER - treat your patient by solving case-test.

Case: A person with age of 53years admited to the hosptial with the severe abdominal pain. The doctor diagnose that the gallblader is fibroused and is removed soon after perfoming ultra sound. When the operation is done the patient is complaining that his sensation on the right side from umblicus upto end of the abdomen is lost.

QUIZ questions: What should be the proper reason for that complain? What should you diagnosed?

35yo Male

Symptoms: Shortness of breath during physical exercise, lesser tolerance for physical activity, cough

Other afflictions: Asthma (diagnosed a couple of months ago), pneumonia with suspicion of eozinophil infiltration

Interview:
Cough
Fever
Patient denies all questions about infectious diseases  (including HIV, HCV, flu)
Doesn't do drugs
No contact with toxic substances
Family interview unnecessary

Physical examination
Heart: Tachycardia - 100 bpm, quiet tones with 3rd tone, systolic murmur,
Lungs: Crepitations in bases of both lungs, enlarged expiration ,
Stomach: regular,
Lower limbs: traces of oedemas in both ankles

First suspicions: heart failure, bilateral pneumonia.