Prednisone Case Patient

The patient is a 79-year-old gentleman who presented to the ED complaining of chest pain which he has had for approximately a week. It seemed that it increased with deep breathing. He had no chills, fever or other symptomatology. His medical history is significant for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, BPH, OSA, atrial fibrillation and iron deficiency anemia, renal cell carcinoma, partial nephrectomy in 2012 and also bladder cancer. The patient was admitted inpatient. When seen the morning after admission patient was placed in outpatient status. The morning after admission the patient felt better and the feeling was that the patient could be safely discharged home. The patient was placed on Prednisone daily for 5 days. He will be follow up