Routine Pulmonary Function Test Can Estimate the Extent of Tuberculous Destroyed Lung

Routine Pulmonary Function Test Can Estimate the Extent of Tuberculous Destroyed Lung

Tuberculous destroyed lung (TDL) is diagnosed by a clear past history of tuberculosis with findings of parenchymal destruction verified by chest X-ray. Despite the resultant deterioration of lung function and quality of lives seen in TDL patients, the exact mechanism or characteristics of pulmonary function worsening have not been clearly studied. We investigated the feature of respiratory impa...

Management of tuberculous destroyed lung in Nigeria.

Between 1969 and 1979, 20 patients under-went pneumonectomy for tuberculous destroyed lungs (TDL) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. Their ages ranged from 9 to 57 years, with an average age of 24 years. The left lung was involved in 16 patients (80 percent) and the right lung in four patients (20 percent). All patients had received treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (...

A Case of Pulmonary Arterial Thrombosis in a Patient with Tuberculous-destroyed Lung and Pulmonary Hypertension

Address for correspondence: Hye Cheol Jeong, M.D., Ph.D. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang CHA Hospital, Pochon CHA University, 351, Yatap-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-712, Korea Phone: 82-31-780-6142, Fax: 82-31-780-4800 E-mail: [email protected] Received: Nov. 15, 2007 Accepted: Jan. 15, 2008 결핵성 파괴폐에 의한 폐동맥 고혈압 환자에서 발견된 근위부 폐동맥 혈전증 1...

Efficacy of Inhaled Iloprost in Cor Pulmonale and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Tuberculous Destroyed Lung

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the causes of cor pulmonale. Cor pulmonale patients with pulmonary hypertension have a significant lower survival rate than patients without. However, there is no conclusive treatment options in cor pulmonale and pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD until now. We report a patient with cor pulmonale and pulmonary hypertension associat...

Tuberculous destroyed lung: radiologic and clinical outcomes with prognostic evaluation