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Respirol Case Rep
October 2024
Division of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Department of Multidisciplinary Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Tottori University Yonago Japan.
Here, we report a case of zoonosis pulmonary infection with a tree-in-bud appearance. In cases showing a tree-in-bud appearance on chest CT images, pulmonary infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis, especially in patients with pets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCase Report: Primary ciliary dyskinesia due to CCNO mutations: a Chinese pediatric case series and literature review.
Front Pediatr
September 2024
Department of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen Children's Hospital Affiliated to Shantou University Medical College, Shenzhen, China.
Article Synopsis
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a hereditary condition that affects cilia, leading to issues with clearing mucus from the lungs, and this study focuses on PCD linked to mutations in the CCNO gene, involving three Chinese children.
- The cases include an 8-year-old boy diagnosed with respiratory issues akin to diffuse panbronchiolitis, his sister with similar symptoms requiring oxygen, and a 4-year-old girl with a history of pneumonia and recurrent infections, all confirmed to have PCD through genetic testing.
- Key clinical features of CCNO-PCD were identified, such as neonatal respiratory distress, chronic cough, and low nasal nitric oxide levels, indicating that while cilia may appear normal, they
Characterization of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease and pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with AFB smear-positive sputum: A retrospective comparative study.
Heliyon
September 2024
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, 1665, Kongjiang Road, Shanghai, 200092, China.
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- The study focuses on differentiating non-tuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) from pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients with positive sputum smear results, identifying clinical characteristics of both diseases over a span of four years in China.
- A total of 76 NTM-PD and 92 PTB cases were analyzed; findings revealed that NTM-PD patients were generally older, exhibited more symptoms like hemoptysis and dyspnea, and showed differing radiological features compared to PTB patients.
- Advanced age, hemoptysis, and dyspnea emerged as key independent predictors for NTM-PD, emphasizing the need for careful
Relevance of the correlation between tomography findings and laboratory test results in the accuracy of the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Radiol Bras
May 2024
Clínica UDI 24 Horas, Teresina, PI, Brazil.
Objective: To evaluate the correlation between multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) findings and laboratory test results in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB).
Materials And Methods: A total of 57 patients were evaluated. Patients with suspected PTB were divided into groups according to the final diagnosis (confirmed or excluded), and the groups were compared in terms of sociodemographic variables, clinical symptoms, tomography findings, and laboratory test results.
Lady Windermere syndrome (LWS) is a disease caused by a non-tuberculous (NTM) that is commonly found in thin women who voluntarily suppress their cough reflex. The NTM that causes this syndrome is complex, an organism commonly present in chlorinated city water and soil. Patients with LWS are tall, lean, elderly white women.
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