Case 40-2002

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Presentation of CaseA 56-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of rapidly progressive dyspnea and pulmonary abnormalities.The patient had been well until about two weeks earlier, when he stopped smoking because he “felt like it”; he had a 100-pack-year history of cigarette smoking. One week later, he began to experience substernal heaviness without radiation, sweating, or nausea and had increasing dyspnea on slight exertion, with a progressive, nonproductive cough. The findings on a chest radiograph were abnormal, and he was admitted the same day to the hospital.The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus with nonketotic . . .