Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure
Clinical aspects
An 81-year-old man hospitalized for worsening dyspnea. The patient reported having systemic arterial hypertension for 10 years, with a history of electrical cardioversion for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia and having been hospitalized in the past for decompensated heart failure.
During the penultimate hospitalization he had tachypnea and hypoxemia with the swelling of the right calf. Chest X-ray revealed opacification of the right lung base. On the basis of this data, the most probable diagnosis was pulmonary thromboembolism.
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