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Cureus
May 2023
Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, USA.
Coccidioidomycosis is a rare infection caused by the dimorphic fungi or . This fungal infection is very common in the American Southwest as well as northern Mexico. Though the fungus is ubiquitous, symptomatic coccidioidomycosis usually occurs in the elderly or immunocompromised.
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February 2023
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
J Postgrad Med
April 2022
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is a severe, idiosyncratic reaction to a drug which presents after a prolonged latency period. Although it most commonly occurs with aromatic anticonvulsants, antibiotics are also occasionally implicated. A 50-year-old male was admitted for left pyopneumothorax.
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November 2018
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tainan Municipal Hospital (Managed by Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation), Tainan, Taiwan.
A 58-year-old man with a history of diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease acquired pneumonia with acute respiratory failure during his stay in an intensive care unit (ICU). Empirical antimicrobial therapy with ceftazidime and vancomycin was initiated, and imipenem replaced ceftazidime 2 days later due to the patients pulmonary condition failed to improve. However, within 5 days, pulmonary consolidation rapidly progressed to necrotizing pneumonia complicated by lung abscess, empyema, pyopneumothorax, and tension pneumothorax, leading to the patient's death.
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September 2018
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan.
Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease sometimes causes pneumothorax and empyema, which are often intractable because of patients' background factors. Biological products used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis have caused the problem of an increase in infection rates as a side effect, one of which is nontuberculous mycobacteriosis (NTM). On the basis of past experience, we report the case of a patient who had a history of undergoing treatment with biological products against rheumatoid arthritis.
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