Clinical characteristics of patients with not well-controlled severe asthma in Japan: Analysis of the Keio Severe Asthma Research Program in Japanese population (KEIO-SARP) registry.

Background: Multiple phenotypes exist within the classification of severe asthma. However, characteristics of patients with not well-controlled severe asthma have not been well identified.

Methods: Japanese patients with asthma (age ≥ 20 years) were enrolled at the Keio University Hospital and its affiliated hospitals in this observational study (Keio Severe Asthma Research Program).

Black pleural effusion caused by pancreatic pseudocyst rupture.

The images show the path of pancreatic pleural effusion from the pancreatic pseudocyst in a patient with alcoholic pancreatitis who presented with black pleural effusion, however, without symptoms. Pancreatic pseudocyst rupture rarely causes pleural effusion; however, it should be considered in patients with chronic pancreatitis with black pleural effusion.