Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2014: a 31-year-old woman with fevers, chest pain, and a history of HCV infection and substance-use disorder.
A 31-year-old woman with substance-use disorder was admitted to this hospital because of fevers and chest pain. CT of the chest revealed multiple thick-walled nodular opacities throughout both lungs. Diagnostic tests were performed, and management decisions were made.
Sarah E
SE
Wakeman
Brian B
BB
Ghoshhajra
David M
DM
Dudzinski
Timothy
T
Wilens
Peter L
PL
Slavin
D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*