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What Causes Shortness Of Breath And Green Stool?
Recently I have been tachycardic (120's-130's), shortness of breath, green stool today (with no ingestion of anything green in days. I had an echocardiogram yesterday and am having a stress test on Monday. I will speak to my cardiologist Monday afternoon for results of both tests. Any ideas?
Fri, 10 Jun 2016
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I carefully passed through your question and would explain that it is important performing a comprehensive differential diagnosis between different causes that may lead to this symptomatology:
- a gastro-intestinal hemorrhage, causing acute anemia. I would recommend performing a stool analysis for the presence of blood and a bacterial culture of your stool to test for possible infection
- a lung X ray study and respiratory function tests to exclude possible lung disorder.
- some blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, sedimentation rate, kidney and liver function tests, blood electrolytes).
- an abdominal ultrasound
An ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring would help examine your heart rhythm trends for a prolonged time.
I would be happy to review all your cardiac performed tests for another professional opinion.
Hope to have been helpful!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
Welcome on HCM!
I carefully passed through your question and would explain that it is important performing a comprehensive differential diagnosis between different causes that may lead to this symptomatology:
- a gastro-intestinal hemorrhage, causing acute anemia. I would recommend performing a stool analysis for the presence of blood and a bacterial culture of your stool to test for possible infection
- a lung X ray study and respiratory function tests to exclude possible lung disorder.
- some blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, sedimentation rate, kidney and liver function tests, blood electrolytes).
- an abdominal ultrasound
An ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoring would help examine your heart rhythm trends for a prolonged time.
I would be happy to review all your cardiac performed tests for another professional opinion.
Hope to have been helpful!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
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