There is no better way to spread knowledge in medicine than learning from cases. Every case in daily practice has a learning point that may be easily overlooked for various reasons, including time constraints or repetition. I will try to post short clinical cases from daily practice here (cardiac or non-cardiac), which may have only one interesting point to remember. I hope you find them helpful.
The main pathologies causing unilateral swollen legs are venous stasis (like Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) or venous insufficiency), lymphedema, malignancy, trauma and infections (like cellulitis).
A 55-year-old man was referred with severe shortness of breath and dyspnea on exertion. He had multiple Hospital presentations in the prior year with episodes