title: A 34-Year-Old Woman With Recurrent Right-Sided Chest Pain and Dyspnea.
abstract: A 34-year-old woman presented with her third episode of acute-onset right-sided chest pain and dyspnea. She had two prior similar occurrences of right-sided sharp, pleuritic chest pain with radiation to the back and dyspnea. Chest radiographs during these presentations revealed a small apical right-sided pneumothorax that was managed conservatively with high-flow oxygen. All three presentations were associated with vigorous exercise and the first day of her menses. She denied cough, hemoptysis, fever, smoking history, airplane travel, scuba diving, or trauma during these presentations. The patient has been trying to conceive for the past year but has been unsuccessful because of uterine fibroids but no history of endometriosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Electronic address: jeffalbores@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Albores
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fishbein
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bando
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis