A 35-Year-Old Woman With Acute Pleuritic Chest Pain and an Unusual Mediastinal Opacity

Chest. 2019 Jan;155(1):e17-e20. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.07.036.

Abstract

A 35-year-old woman came to the ED following 2 days of chest pain. She was a nonsmoker, taking no medications, and not using a contraceptive pill. The patient had no history of recent travel but had given birth (full-term pregnancy) 4 months earlier. She described nonradiating, left-sided pleuritic chest pain with no associated dyspnea, cough, sputum, or sweating.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Acute Pain / diagnosis
  • Acute Pain / etiology*
  • Adult
  • Chest Pain / diagnosis
  • Chest Pain / etiology*
  • Computed Tomography Angiography
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fat Necrosis / complications*
  • Fat Necrosis / diagnosis
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mediastinum / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pericardium / diagnostic imaging
  • Pleura / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pleural Diseases / complications*
  • Pleural Diseases / diagnosis
  • Radiography, Thoracic