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Pulmonary thromboembolism presenting with hoarseness of voice.
BMJ Case Rep
December 2024
Pulmonary Medicine, GMCH, Chandigarh, India.
A young man in his late 30s with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis presented with complaints of hoarseness of voice persisting for 6 months. Chest auscultation revealed diminished breath sounds over the right lung field. An initial chest X-ray showed collapse of the right lung with mediastinal shift towards right.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalmonella pneumonia and empyema in a patient with end-stage liver disease.
Respir Med Case Rep
September 2024
Department of Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Naples Healthcare System, Naples, FL, United States.
Introduction: Salmonella infections usually present as self-limiting gastrointestinal illnesses. Salmonella pneumonia is an uncommon infection that should be considered in immunodeficient individuals originally presenting with enterocolitis. With fewer than 40 reported cases, salmonella pneumonia can rarely lead to empyema (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBronchopulmonary sequestration presenting as haemoptysis with an aberrant blood supply from the pulmonary artery.
BMJ Case Rep
October 2024
Pulmonary Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Bronchopulmonary sequestration is a rare condition characterised by the presence of nonfunctional, dysplastic lung tissue. This tissue receives blood supply from the systemic circulation. In this case report, we document an exceptional presentation of a woman in her 50s where bronchopulmonary sequestration in the right upper lung lobe led to haemoptysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFelty Syndrome Presented With Candida albicans Lung Abscess Without Arthritis: A Case Report.
Cureus
August 2024
Internal Medicine, Wexford General Hospital, Wexford, IRL.
Article Synopsis
- - Felty syndrome (FS) is a serious complication of severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that can be identified by symptoms like neutropenia and splenomegaly, particularly in patients without an obvious cause.
- - A case study of a 52-year-old patient illustrates an unusual early presentation of FS with symptoms including fever, night sweats, and lung abscesses, despite having been diagnosed with RA two years earlier without treatment.
- - After starting antifungal medications and corticosteroids, the patient showed significant improvement with normalization of blood counts and a reduction in spleen size, highlighting the need for attentive diagnosis in RA patients regardless of their disease duration.
community-acquired necrotizing pneumonia, an uncommon presentation of a common pathogen: A case report and literature review.
Respirol Case Rep
September 2024
Department of Internal Medicine Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex Tehran Iran.
Community-acquired necrotizing pneumonia is a rare but potentially fatal infection, mainly caused by specific pathogens such as , , , , and . is extremely rare as a pathogen for community-acquired necrotizing pneumonia, typically accompanied with bloodstream infection. Here, we report an unusual case of a 60-year-old man with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and no bloodstream infections, who had severe necrotizing pneumonia leading to massive hemoptysis and death.
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