CASE 819: LEFT CHEST PAIN and LUNG POCUS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ THỊ THANH THẢO, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

A 67 year-old man with left chest pain progressing for 3 days, coughing and no fever.

Lab data nothing abnormal detected. 

EKG  sinus arrhythmia bradycardia.

CT coronary stenosis 40-30%.

Lung POCUS : Left pleural effusion and thickening left pleura zone L5 with seven B-lines: interstitial pneumonia.

Chest MSCT  later confirmed thickening of posterior basal of left lung.

Lung POCUS helps differentiaziting, in a left chest pain , a pneumonia from an angina pectoris.