[Outbreak of extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in a hemodialysis facility].

We experienced an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in a hemodialysis facility. The primary case involved a 51-year-old male hemodialysis patient, with a history of treatment for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection seven years previously. There was no drug resistance, and the patient completely recovered after undergoing treatment with isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RFP) and ethambutol (EB).

[A case of hard metal lung disease in a man who worked as an iron grinder].

The patient was a man who had suffered from repeated pneumothoraces since August 2003, when he was 16 years old. A right pneumothorax was observed at age 21 years, in April 2008. At the same time, a dry cough began to appear and diffuse small nodular shadows in both lung fields were found on a chest X-ray film.