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dc.contributor.authorRaman, Len_US
dc.contributor.authorRathod, KSIen_US
dc.contributor.authorBanka, Ren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-22T08:37:42Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7742
dc.description.abstractA 29-year-old man presented with sudden left-sided pleuritic chest pain on a background of sore throat during the preceding week. On examination he had tender cervical lymphadenopathy, he was tachycardic and had a 24 mm Hg blood pressure difference between the left and right arms. Bloods revealed deranged liver function tests and a lymphocytosis. His D-dimer was raised, hence he was treated for presumed pulmonary embolism before imaging was available. Monospot test was positive. He subsequently had both a CT pulmonary angiogram and a CT angiogram of the aorta to exclude pulmonary embolism and aortic dissection. The CT revealed splenomegaly with a large subdiaphragmatic haematoma secondary to splenic rupture. This had likely caused referred pain through diaphragmatic irritation. He was taken to theatre for urgent splenectomy. The unifying diagnosis was infectious mononucleosis complicated by spontaneous splenic rupture secondary to Epstein-Barr virus infection.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofBMJ case reportsen_US
dc.titleChest pain in a young patient: an unusual complication of Epstein-Barr virusen_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/bcr-2013-201606en_US
pubs.notesNot knownen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.volume2014en_US


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