A case from the library
High fever and right lower abdominal pain after a cesarean in a 33-year-old woman
Obstetrics & GynecologyMedium
Melissa Grant
33 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 110 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 90/50 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 22 /min
- SpO₂
- 96%
- Temperature
- 104 °F
How hard it is
A real-world presentation with one or two atypical features. You'll need targeted questions and the right test to narrow the differential.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Thrombosis Journal, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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