Diagnosis in just over a minute: a case of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.

Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) is a rare interstitial lung disease characterized by subacute dyspnea, peripheral infiltrates on imaging, and pulmonary eosinophilia. We report a case of a 48-year-old man who presented to a "minute clinic" with cough and dyspnea. After improvement on a short course of steroids for a presumptive diagnosis of bronchospasm, he presented to our hospital with symptom recurrence.

Diagnostic bedside EUS in the intensive care unit: a single-center experience.

Background: The knowledge of bedside diagnostic EUS in critically ill patients is limited.

Objective: To investigate the indications, feasibility, safety, and clinical utility of diagnostic EUS in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Design: Retrospective.

An official American Thoracic Society statement: Treatment of fungal infections in adult pulmonary and critical care patients.

With increasing numbers of immune-compromised patients with malignancy, hematologic disease, and HIV, as well as those receiving immunosupressive drug regimens for the management of organ transplantation or autoimmune inflammatory conditions, the incidence of fungal infections has dramatically increased over recent years. Definitive diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infections has also been substantially assisted by the development of newer diagnostic methods and techniques, including the use of antigen detection, polymerase chain reaction, serologies, computed tomography and positron emission tomography scans, bronchoscopy, mediastinoscopy, and video-assisted thorascopic biopsy. At the same time, the introduction of new treatment modalities has significantly broadened options available to physicians who treat these conditions.

Extreme delay in care for enlarging breast mass.

Phyllodes tumor (PT) of the breast is an uncommon fibroepithelial tumor accounting for 0.37% of primary breast cancers. Most PT are <5.