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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.

15 yo (year old) male patient with fever of 39 Celsius degrees came to a GP with a throat pain.

Examination: Purulent excretion on tonsils and back wall of throat. Submandibular lymphonodes are enlarged bilaterally. After 4 days of Augmentin therapy there is no recovery, rash showed up on his skin, no shock symptoms. Hepatosplenomegaly.