[CHANGES IN MAC ANTIBODY LEVELS BEFORE AND AFTER SURGERY AND AT THE TIME OF RELAPSE/RECURRENCE IN MAC LUNG DISEASE--Can MAC Antibodies Be an Indicator of Postoperative Relapse/Recurrence?].

Background: Patients receiving surgical treatment for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), lung disease should be followed up with careful attention paid to relapse/recurrence, but there is some debate regarding the findings based on which relapse/recurrence should be diagnosed.

Purpose And Methods: We hypothesized that we might be able to use anti-GPL core IgA antibodies (MAC antibodies), which have been attracting attention as a factor that may support diagnosis of MAC lung disease, to diagnose postoperative relapse/recurrence. Therefore, we compared the levels of these antibodies before and at the time of relapse/recurrence, and also compared antibody titers before and after surgery.

Bronchial occlusion with Endobronchial Watanabe Spigots for massive hemoptysis in a patient with pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection.

The safety of occlusion with Endobronchial Watanabe Spigots (EWS) for the management of hemoptysis associated with chronic respiratory tract infection has not yet been established. A 57-year-old woman diagnosed as having pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection presented to our hospital with hemoptysis. She underwent bronchoscopy for bronchial occlusion with EWS, which resulted in the resolution of hemoptysis.

[A STUDY OF SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS PULMONARY DISEASE AND A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX DISEASE].

Objective: This is a retrospective study on six surgical cases of Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary disease, including a comparison with M. avium complex (MAC) disease.

Subjects And Methods: We performed surgery for six cases of M.

[A study of relapse/recurrence cases after surgical treatment for patients with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis].

Purpose: This is a retrospective study on relapse/recurrence of surgical cases of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteriosis (NTM). Surgical treatment was performed at one hospital and by one surgeon.

Method: Fifty patients had undergone surgical treatment from August 2004 to July 2011 in hospital.

[Clinical analysis of drug interaction between rifampicin and clarithromycin which are used for treating pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection].

Purpose: We reviewed the interaction between rifampicin (RFP) and clarithromycin (CAM) during treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection.

Subjects And Methods: The subjects were patients with pulmonary non-tuberculous acid-fast bacillus infection during the period from September 2004 to January 2006 who consented to this study. Drug blood concentrations were compared with the minimum inhibitory concentrations for M.

[Usefulness of variable numbers of tandem repeats typing in clinical strains of Mycobacterium avium].

Objectives: We evaluated the usefulness of Variable Numbers of Tandem Repeats (VNTR) analysis, which was recently reported as a new typing method of Mycobacterium avium strains of animal origin, for strain differentiation of clinical isolates of M. avium in comparison with the standard IS1245-RFLP typing method. In addition, forty M.

[Clinical analysis of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and discovery of an elastase inhibitor].

We studied the clinical features of 59 chronic pulmonary aspergillosis cases (aspergilloma, chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis) which we experienced in our hospital. To diagnose this disease, X-rays, sputum culture and serologic tests were mainly examined, X-ray findings were a fungus ball type in 47% of cases and thickened wall of a cavity type in 32%. Positive sputum culture found was A.