kiranmayi
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Joe Brown, a 6-foot 3-inch, 23-year-old male, presents to your office with acute onset of shortness of breath and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. He smokes 1½ packs of cigarettes per day. On examination, he is diaphoretic and tachycardic; his right chest is hyperreasonant to percussion, and he has decreased breath sounds and decreased tactile fremitus. On chest X ray, the right lung is hyperlucent and the mediastinum is displaced to the left. ECG shows nonspecific tachycardia. What caused these signs and symptoms?
A. Asthma exacerbation
B. Myocardial infarction
C. Pneumonia
D. Pulmonary embolism
E. Spontaneous pneumothorax
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| mistral92
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E ( pthorax)
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| asmi
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E....Pneumothorax
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| dxtxpx
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choice e) pneumothorax
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| jb00727
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