Diagnosis of COVID-19 in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism.

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and coronavirus disease -2019 (COVID-19) are life-threatening diseases associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Yet little is known about their co-existence.This study explored clinical and laboratory differences between PE patients who tested positive with real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR+) and those who tested negative (PCR-) for SARS-CoV-2.

Bronchoscopic diagnostic procedures and microbiological examinations in proving endobronchial tuberculosis.

Objective: To determine the proportional distribution of endobronchial tuberculosis (EBTB) subtypes and to evaluate the types of bronchoscopic diagnostic procedures that can prove granulomatous inflammation.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of 18 HIV-negative patients with biopsy-proven EBTB treated between 2010 and 2014.

Results: The most common EBTB subtypes, as classified by the bronchoscopic features, were tumorous and granular (in 22.

Community-acquired Burkholderia cepacia pneumonia: a report of two immunocompetent patients.

Burkholderia cepacia is a gram-negative bacilli leading to pneumonia with poor prognosis and usually seen in patients with immunosuppression or with structural lung diseases. This report is about two patients with no underlying disease diagnosed as B. cepacia pneumonia mimicking malignancy and tuberculosis.