Dyspnoea Case Study

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Peter has returned three months since the last appointment. Unfortunately Peter has been noticing a gradual increase in dyspnoea and on reflection believes this has been the case since having pneumonia back in June. He has recently been trying to build a deck for his daughter and has struggled to do this, whereas twelve months ago he thinks he could have managed this without too much difficulty.

There has been a recent productive cough and Peter is just completing a course of Augmentin Duo Forte. He did have an episode of chest pain a few weeks back that led to a presentation to Austin ED. A gather nothing untoward was detected and Peter has since seen David Clark who has arranged an echocardiogram and an angiogram. I gather these

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