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Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure

Bruna Affonso Madaloso et al. Paulo Sampaio Gutierrez

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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  • Amyloidosis / diagnosis
  • Heart Failure/complications
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Pulmonary embolism
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01/07/2014 DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140102

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Madaloso BA, Gutierrez PS. Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 2014;103(1):e1-e10.

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Madaloso, Bruna Affonso; Gutierrez, Paulo Sampaio. Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, v. 103, n. 1, p. e1-e10, Jun. 2014.

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Madaloso, B. A., & Gutierrez, P. S. (2014). Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 103(1), e1-e10.

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Madaloso, Bruna Affonso and Gutierrez, Paulo Sampaio. Case 3/2014 – 81-Year-Old Patient Hospitalized for Decompensated Heart Failure. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia [online]. 2014, vol. 103, n. 1, [cited 2026-10-14], pp. e1-e10. Available from: <https://journals.cardiol.br/en/article/case-3-2014-81-year-old-patient-hospitalized-for-decompensated-heart-failure/>. ISSN 0066-782X

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