LADY WINDERMERE IN DISGUISE

The Lady Windermere Syndrome

Background: Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC-PD) radiographically resembles that due to tuberculosis; it preferentially affects elderly white men with predisposing pulmonary disorders (PDPD). Methods: 1\venty-thne patients with MAC-PD were identifled from a community-baned population, and the medical records and chest roentgenograms (CRs) of six with a previously undesc...

Lady Windermere syndrome: Mycobacterium of sophistication.

Lady Windermere syndrome: an inappropriate eponym for an increasingly important condition.

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection (NMI) occurs in elderly women with no pre-existing lung disease, and this has been termed the Lady Windermere syndrome. NMIs are increasing in prevalence and an increasing number of pulmonary mycobacterial infections is due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria. The diagnosis is often difficult because the organism is not readily isolated or cultured, and the c...

The Lady Windermere syndrome: is there a racial as well as a gender bias?

a group more predisposed to agree with the clinicians in their judgments about what constitutes inappropriate care. Second, at the same time that the Texas law grants this sweeping authority to ethics committees, it precludes any possibility of an appeal to the judicial system. Judges are authorized only to grant extensions of the decision (and even then only if necessary to find an alternative...

Dualism in Disguise