In the last month of a 4-month course of frame treatment he experienced a PE with symptoms of mild shortness of breath which fully resolved.
A 41-year-old woman with a past medical history of colon cancer metastatic to her lung and liver and a history of multiple rounds of failed chemotherapy, presented to the emergency department from home with a 2-week history of nausea and vomiting and decreased appetite and oral intake, weakness, mild shortness of breath on exertion and chronic abdominal pain.
She also reported mild shortness of breath and ankle swelling.
She denied any cardiac symptoms except for mild shortness of breath on exertion.
One patient during the first course and five patients during subsequent courses developed mild shortness of breath.
She developed hypotension with a systolic blood pressure (SBP) 60 mmHg; the heart rate was 150/min and associated with mild shortness of breath.
Symptoms of so-called acute altitude sickness, which are not life-threatening, include: mild headache, shortness of breath during ordinary activities, loss of appetite, insomnia and malaise.
Viable organisms were present in 4 of 6 persons with positive PCR results, and all 4 (who were nonsmokers and had no allergies) had mild respiratory illness (shortness of breath or rhinitis and coughing).
Mr. Clinton, 58, had experienced "mild chest pains and shortness of breath," his office said in a statement released to the news media on Friday, and his doctors advised him to have the surgery.
The cardiopulmonary phase, which typically lasts 2 10 days, can range from a mild illness, characterized by shortness of breath and need for supplemental nasal oxygen, to severe cardiopulmonary involvement with respiratory failure, lactic acidosis, shock, and death (3, 4).
Cryptococcal disease can present as a cough, sputum, shortness of breath, mild fever, headache, chest pain and other symptoms, whereas nearly one-third of pulmonary cryptococcosis cases were discovered by chest X-ray due to a lack of symptoms.
