Monday, June 30, 2014

CPS CASE 60. Seeking an Expert Interpretation

This patient has a subacute febrile illness.

この患者は亜急性熱性疾患である。

Sunday, June 29, 2014

CPS CASE 59. High on the Differential

The edema may be hydrostatic in origin, from either heart failure or other causes, or oncotic in origin, from hypoalbuminemia; bilateral deep venous thromboses would be unusual.

浮腫は、静水学的には心不全などから、膠質浸透圧では低アルブミン血症から生じる。両側の深部静脈血栓症は普通ではない。

Saturday, June 28, 2014

CPS CASE 58. Where Did Good Old Clinical Diagnosis Go?

The time required to recover after bypass surgery is variable; some patients resume their normal activities within less than a month, and in others the recovery process is longer.

バイパス手術後回復に要する時間はさまざまである。1か月以内に完全な日常生活に戻る患者もいれば、回復過程がさらにかかる患者もいる。

Friday, June 27, 2014

CPS CASE 57. A Common Clinical Conundrum

The presence of a gallop rhythm usually indicates a substantial elevation in left ventricular end-diastolic pressure.

奔馬調律があるのはふつう左心室拡張終末期圧が相当上昇していることを表す。

Thursday, June 26, 2014

CPS CASE 56. When Too Much is Too Little

It is important to know whether the left-leg weakness is true neuromuscular weakness or weakness due to pain.

左脚の脱力が神経筋原性のものか痛みによるものかを知ることは大切だ。

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

CPS CASE 55. Learning from Our Errors

The lesion in this patient may be in the lower-cranial-nerve area, perhaps due to a basilar meningitis, or somewhere in the cerebral hemispheres.

この患者の病変は下部脳神経領域、おそらく脳底髄膜炎によるか、あるいは大脳半球のどこかにあるのであろう。

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

CPS CASE 54. The Domino Principle

This woman appears to be in hemodynamic shock.

この女性の外観はショック状態である。

Monday, June 23, 2014

CPS CASE 53. The Illusion of Certainty

The history is suggestive of claudication due to occlusive arterial disease, but the patient's young age and the quite strong pulses and absent femoral bruits militate against this diagnosis.

病歴から動脈閉塞症による跛行が考えられるが、若い年齢とかなりの強度の拍動大腿部血管雑音の欠如はその診断に合致しない。

Sunday, June 22, 2014

CPS CASE 52. A Stressful Interaction

Concerning the headache and lethargy, a brain tumor comes to mind, but I can't make an association between the headaches and heartburn, unless he has a gastrointestinal neoplasm that has metastasized to the brain.

頭痛と嗜眠から脳腫瘍を思い浮かべるが、消化管の悪性腫瘍が脳に転移したというのでなければ、頭痛と胸やけの関係は説明できない。

Saturday, June 21, 2014

CPS CASE 51. The Invisible Patient

This is an older woman with recurrent spells that seem to be associated with a tachyrhythmia that was subsequently determined to be paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

本症例は、結果的に発作性心房細動と診断された頻脈に関連するように思える発作を有する年配女性である。

Friday, June 20, 2014

CPS CASE 50. A Broken Heart

His chest pain suggests a cardiac abnormality, and the patient is predisposed to coronary artery disease by his age and his diabetes.

患者の胸痛は心臓の異常を示唆しており、年齢と糖尿病から冠動脈疾患に罹りやすい。

Thursday, June 19, 2014

CPS CASE 49. Just in Time

Weight loss, shortness of breath, and amenorrhea are not seen with chronic fatigue syndrome, and these findings suggest that this young person has an important organic illness.

体重減少、息切れ、無月経は慢性疲労症候群にはみられず、これらの所見はこの若い患者が重要な器質性疾患を呈していることを示している。

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

CPS CASE 48. If at First You Don't Succeed

Given that the patient is a young Laotian, I would at least consider the possibility of unusual causes for her symptoms, which are usually due to fairly common diseases.

患者は若いラオス人女性なので、通常はかなり頻度の高い疾患によって起こる症状ではあるが、私なら比較的まれな疾患の可能性を少なくとも考える。

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

CPS CASE 47. Testing, Testing, Testing . . .

The patient's age, the onset of symptoms, and the clinical picture support a presumptive diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis.

患者の年齢、症状の発症様式、臨床像から慢性関節リウマチの診断が考えられる。

Monday, June 16, 2014

CPS CASE 46. The Girl with the Curl

Isolated fever, with no localizing signs or symptoms, about six weeks after kidney transplantation is not uncommon.

発熱単独、局所徴候がなく、腎移植後約五週間というケースは稀ではない。

Sunday, June 15, 2014

CPS CASE 45. Studying the Classics

At the time of her first visit to the emergency room, the patient's fever and symptoms were most suggestive of a respiratory infection, but there also seemed to be a gastrointestinal component.

彼女が初めて救急室を訪れたときには、発熱と症状から呼吸器感染症が最も考えられたが、消化器系の異常もあるようであった。

Saturday, June 14, 2014

CPS CASE 44. A Traumatic Experience

The case presented is of a young woman who was brought to the emergency room with a persistent neurologic deficit that is most consistent with stroke.

提示された症例は、脳卒中と辻褄があう持続性の神経学的欠損症状で救急室に搬送された若い女性のものである。

Friday, June 13, 2014

CPS CASE 43. Diverted by the Chief Complaint

Facial flushing is fairly nonspecific, although the carcinoid syndrome comes to mind.

顔面潮紅はかなり非特異的症状であるがカルチノイド症候群が頭に浮かぶところである。

Thursday, June 12, 2014

CPS CASE 42. Costly Errors

This is a patient with a severe Coombs'-positive anemia that has proved refractory to high doses of prednisone.

これは大量の predonisone に不応性のクームス陽性重症貧血の患者である。

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

CPS CASE 41. When You Only Live Twice

The causes of sudden death are many and are usually presented in double-page, small-print tables in textbooks.

突然死の原因は数多くあり、通常教科書には小さな字でも2頁にわたる一覧表として記載されている。

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

CPS CASE 40. We Blew It

The patient's history is consistent with liver disease.

患者の病歴からは、肝疾患の存在が示唆される。

Monday, June 9, 2014

CPS CASE 39. Decision Making by Analogy

The first thing I would worry about with the history of chest pain, productive cough, and shortness of breath is some sort of infection, possibly pneumonia.

胸痛、痰を伴う咳嗽、息切れの病歴からまず私が懸念することはある種の感染症であり、肺炎の可能性である。

Sunday, June 8, 2014

CPS CASE 38. Diagnostic Strategy — The Shotgun versus the Arrow

The combination of shortness of breath and dizziness makes me think about a cardiac event, and the shortness of breath raises the possibility of heart failure.

息切れとめまいがともに存在することから心臓発作が考えられ、息切れという訴えからは心不全の可能性が高い。

Saturday, June 7, 2014

CPS CASE 37. Pain in the Marriage

These symptoms are compatible with unstable angina.

これらの徴候は不安定狭心症に矛盾しない。

Friday, June 6, 2014

CPS CASE 36. Some Familiar Trade-offs

The patient's mitral regurgitation could have progressed, producing congestive heart failure, but in an elderly man coronary artery disease and a myocardial infarction would surely be possible.

本症例は僧帽弁閉鎖不全症が徐々に進行し、うっ血性心不全を起こした可能性がある。しかし、高齢の男性では冠動脈疾患や心筋梗塞の可能性もある。

Thursday, June 5, 2014

CPS CASE 35. The Appropriate Degree of Diagnostic Certainty

The first thing that occurs to me is that this man may be having acute myocardial ischemia.

思い浮かぶ最初のことは、この男性は急性心筋梗塞を起こしているということである。

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

CPS CASE 34. Still Hazy after All These Years

Acute abdominal pain may occur in a number of medical conditions.

急性の腹痛を起こすかもしれない多くの医学的状態がある。

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

CPS CASE 33. Invasive Interventions

A cardiac origin of this pain would be rather unusual in a young man unless he had been using cocaine.

この痛みが心臓由来であることは、青年層では普通のことではない。例外は、患者がコカインの常用者である場合だ。

Monday, June 2, 2014

CPS CASE 32. An Anatomy Lesson

The combination of fatigue, weight loss, abdominal pain, and low back pain sounds ominous, but it does not suggest a specific diagnosis.

倦怠感、体重減少、腹痛、腰痛と続くと嫌な予感がするが、疾患が特定されるわけではない。

Sunday, June 1, 2014

CPS CASE 31. Stopping Short of Certainty

A presumptive diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism was made, and neck exploration was carried out.

原発性副甲状腺機能亢進症の暫定診断がなされ、頸部の精査が行われた。