Chronic Diaphragmatic Impairment with Kyphosis: Yielding to Pressure.

Sacha Bhinder and William C

Abstract

A 90 year-old patient with a clinical diagnosis of COPD presented to an urban Canadian emergency department with a complaint of progressive dyspnea for two years despite multiple courses of bronchodilator, antibiotic, and prednisone therapy. Prior chest imaging had not been performed.