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Indian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volume  4, Issue 2, April-June 2018, Pages 177-179
 

Case Report

An Unusual Presentation of an Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism; Diagnostic Challenges in the Emergency Department

Pallavi Sehgal1, Sarat Kumar Naidu2, Dheeraj Bhaskaran Nair3

1Resident 2Attending Consultant 3Associate Consultant and Coordinator, Department of Emergency Medicine, Max Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 201012.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijem.2395.311X.4218.23

Abstract

Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening condition and in most cases the presentation is typical with h/o pleuritic chest pain, breathlessness and h/o prolonged immobilization. However unusual presentations are not very rare and its awareness can avoid delay in its diagnosis and prevent mortality. A 23 years old male presented to ER with non-specific complaints of right upper quadrant pain and fever for 2 days. His vital signs were within normal limits apart from tachycardia and all initial investigations were normal. Due to his increased breathlessness, Well’s score was checked but it was zero. However D-dimer was done which showed high values 1000ng/ml following which CTPA was performed that showed multiple right sided pulmonary emboli. He was then started on LMWH and Direct thrombin inhibitor and was discharged after 4 days. The purpose of publishing this case is to make physicians aware of the unusual presentations of pulmonary embolism and that too in a patient who did not have any known risk factors.

Keywords: Pulmonary Embolism; Unusual Presentation; Abdominal Pain; S1Q3T3; CTPA; Well’s Score; LMWH; UFH.


Corresponding Author : Pallavi Sehgal, Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine Max Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh - 201012