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Authored By: Shane Inoue and Henry Royal.

Patient: 31 year old male

History: 31-year-old man with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, currently hospitalized with complaints of chest pain and shortness of breath. He is status-post tracheostomy following a prior hospitalization for pneumonia and respiratory failure and uses a home ventillator at night. He acutely desaturated to 70% during a bowel movement on the day of the examination and was also complaining of acute chest pain, severity 10/10. On the day prior to this study, the patient underwent a bronchoscopy the day prior, which demonstrated increased secretions in the right lower lobe.

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DTPA aerosol ventillation

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Tc-99m MAA perfusion

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CXR

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Case [View Case with Diagnosis]Owner(s): Shane Inoue and Henry RoyalLast Updated: 02-07-2013
Anatomy: Cardiopulmonary Pathology: Other
Modality: Conventional Radiograph, Nuc MedAccess Level: Readable by all users, writable by NucMed Certifiers
Keywords: mucous plug

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Certified by Henry Royal on 09-17-2009

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