{"id":553734,"date":"2026-03-20T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:56:13","slug":"exertional-dyspnoea-points-to-an-unexpected-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553734\/","title":{"rendered":"Exertional dyspnoea points to an unexpected diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article has been allocated 0.5 EA by the RACGP and ACRRM for the 2026-2028 triennium.<\/p>\n<p>You can self-report this CPD\/PDP activity by logging it online with the RACGP and ACRRM. Click on the link for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mycpd.racgp.org.au\/log?logName=AusDoc%3A+March+2026+-+Thymoma&amp;ea_hours=0.5&amp;program_levels=EP&amp;notes=Reading+online++the+article+for+Ausdoc+Thymoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RACGP Quick Log<\/a>\u00a0or go to your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mycollege.acrrm.org.au\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ACRRM page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leo is a 62-year-old aeroplane engineer who presents with a three-month history of progressive exertional dyspnoea, chest tightness and exertional dry cough.<\/p>\n<p>He reports increasing lethargy over the same period but denies recent fevers, chest pain, haemoptysis, night sweats or unintentional weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article has been allocated 0.5 EA by the RACGP and ACRRM for the 2026-2028 triennium. You can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,1617,120024,237625,27218,137,39767,15483,4086,1369],"class_list":["post-553734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-case-report","tag-clinical-focus-cpd","tag-diagnostics","tag-health","tag-pathology","tag-radiology","tag-respiratory","tag-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}