[Case of pulmonary pseudallescheriasis responding successfully to treatment with voriconazole].

A 27-year-old man was admitted with hemoptysis in October 2005. Chest radiograph and CT showed multiple nodules forming a large mass in the left upper lobe. We suspected pulmonary aspergillosis because we detected filamentous fungi made of chains of cells in the bronchial washing fluid.

[Effect of combined chemotherapy following the guidelines on treatment for Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease].

We retrospectively investigated the clinical appropriateness of combined chemotherapy following the Japanese Society for Tuberculosis guidelines corresponding with those of the American Thoracic Society guideline for MAC pulmonary disease including a comparison with the past treatment for MAC pulmonary disease. The subjects of this study were 159 patients at several hospitals surveyed by the Chugoku-Shikoku Research Committee on Mycobacterium who were diagnosed as having MAC pulmonary disease between April 1995 and March 2001. Among them, 102 patients were treated using a regimen of antituberculous drugs with CAM, 33 patients received antituberculous drugs without CAM, and 24 patients were treated using other regimens.