Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicating Bronchial Atresia
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicating Bronchial Atresia
Bronchial atresia is a rare pulmonary developmental anomaly characterized by the presence of a focal obliteration of a segmental or lobar bronchial lumen. The lung distal to the atretic bronchus is typically emphysematous along with the presence of mucus filled ectatic bronchi (mucoceles). BA is usually asymptomatic but pulmonary infections can rarely develop in the emphysematous lung distal to...
متن کاملPseudomembranous necrotising bronchial aspergillosis complicating chronic airways limitation.
Pseudomembranous necrotising bronchial aspergillosis is a variety of invasive aspergillosis found in immunosuppressed patients. A case is presented of a 66 year old woman whose only underlying disease was chronic airways limitation. The pathological findings and clinical implications are discussed.
متن کاملGlobal burden of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis complicating sarcoidosis.
Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) may complicate pulmonary sarcoidosis. We re-estimated the global burden of sarcoidosis and the burden of CPA complicating sarcoidosis. We searched the literature and reference lists of retrieved papers to identify all published sarcoidosis incidence and prevalence data. We estimated the frequency of CPA from 11 papers relating to >3,000 patients with sarcoi...
متن کاملPulmonary artery-bronchial fistula complicating chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
A 52-year-old man with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) entered the hospital because of repetitive bouts of massive hemoptysis requiring a right pneumonectomy. A bronchus intermedius-pulmonary artery fistula was found and felt to be due to necrosis of a peribronchial lymph node which was infiltrated by chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells. This represents another pulmonary complication in the c...
متن کاملBronchial atresia with corresponding segmental pulmonary emphysema.
This paper presents a 13-year-old boy suffering from congenital bronchial atresia of the anterior and apicoposterior segments of the left upper lobe with corresponding emphysema, and emphysema with bronchial atresia in the anterobasal segment of the left lower lobe. The aetiology of congenital localized emphysema is not always clear. In the group with a demonstrable check-valve mechanism, which...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2014/208963