[A fatal case of pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis with reactive AA amyloidosis].

We report a very rare fatal case of reactive AA amyloidosis following pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis (PNTM). A 61-year-old woman with a history of PNTM since 1992, whose treatment was difficult because of liver dysfunction and drug eruption caused by antibiotics, had been hospitalized due to recurrent pulmonary bacterial infection. She complained of leg edema in January, 2000, and nephrotic syndrome was diagnosed in February.

Macroscopic and histological findings in the healing process of inhalation injury.

Although many investigators reported the diagnostic and therapeutic value of bronchoscopy in the early stage of inhalation injury, few findings in the late stage of inhalation injury have been reported. We investigated histopathological changes of in trachea and bronchi after inhalation injury. Five survivors with inhalation injury underwent bronchoscopic examinations combined with biopsies from the early stage to the late stage.

[A case of Ortner syndrome caused by primary pulmonary hypertension].

Left vocal cord palsy is a rare complication of pulmonary hypertension (also known as Ortner syndrome). Here we report a case of a patient with Ortner syndrome caused by primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). The patient was a 28-year-old woman, who complained of persistent hoarseness and dyspnea on effort.