Diffuse panbronchiolitis in an Australian aborigine.

Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a chronic sino-bronchial disease. It has remained restricted to the Japanese and cases in the West are unusual. We present a patient of Australian aboriginal origin with DPB.

Melioidosis and idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis: a cast-iron case.

Melioidosis is an infection with clinical importance in northern Australia due to the high associated mortality despite appropriate therapy. This report presents a case of acute pulmonary melioidosis on a background remarkable for the absence of typical risk factors for infection, but the presence of a high iron pulmonary microenvironment consequent to idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis. In light of recent genetic analysis of Burkholderia pseudomallei, we postulate that the patient inadvertently provided a high-substrate environment for the iron-scavenging ability of B.

Conservative versus invasive treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a retrospective cohort study.

Aim: The best management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is unclear. Conservative treatment has been proposed, but no studies comparing conservative with invasive management have been carried out where pneumothorax size has been numerically quantified. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of conservative management for primary spontaneous pneumothoraces of any size.