A case from the library
Swollen lips and hives in a 27-year-old man
Emergency MedicineHard
Mateusz Nowak
27 years · Male
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 112 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 98/60 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 20 /min
- SpO₂
- 97%
- Temperature
- 98.6 °F
How hard it is
A rare condition, or a common one presenting unusually. The standard questions and tests won't get you there; you'll need to spot what doesn't fit.
The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology : Official Journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 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.