Abstract

Presentation of CaseAn 83-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of asthma complicated by pneumonia that was unresponsive to antibiotic treatment.The patient had had asthma since childhood, complicated by seven bouts of pneumonia by the age of 12 years and several episodes of pneumonia or bronchitis as an adult. There was a long history of hypertension and a 10-year history of atrial fibrillation for which she received no treatment. For two years she had had type 2 diabetes mellitus and unstable angina pectoris. She had never smoked and had no history of tuberculosis, recent chest pain, chronic . . .

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