Guitti Pourdowlat , Abbas Fadaii , Shahram Kahkouee 1 WHAT IS YOUR DIAGNOSIS? A 31 year-old female was admitted to the hospital with an acute episode of cough and hemoptysis, along with low grade fever. She was nonsmoker without any previous history of respiratory symptoms. Laboratory findings showed WBC count 12,200, NEUT: 74%, LYM: 21%, and EOS: 5%. 1 Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Cen...

n 18-year-old white woman was admitted complaining ofright-sided chest pain offive days duration. The pain was sharp and acute in onset, pleuritic in nature, and felt diffusely throughout the right chest. She had low grade fever and generalized weakness. The patient denied shortness of breath, cough or bloody sputum. There was no history of asthma or pneumonia, and she was a nonsmoker. Her past...

A 31-yr-old Chinese female, a nonsmoker, presented with digital clubbing and coughing. Diagnostic evaluation revealed a pulmonary sequestration in the left lower lobe. During surgery a tumour was discovered, which turned out to be a lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma. These tumours are mainly found in Asians, and are associated with the Epstein Barr virus and not with smoking. They are thought to...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of death in Asian Americans and unfortunately majority are diagnosed at advanced or late stages. In Asia, approximately 60 to 80% female lung patients never smokers. Patients with early-stage have higher cure survival rates, supporting premise screening programs. However, United States has been focused on current former Recent data presented from TALENT study, a...

An otherwise healthy 55-year-old female, nonsmoker, was seen in pulmonary consultation for progressively worsening shortness of breath. She had undergone a complete hysterectomy 7 years prior for bleeding leiomyomas. On presentation, her initial chest X-ray showed a large right-sided pleural effusion with multiple pulmonary nodules. Two thoracenteses failed to reveal any cytologic abnormalities...

Pulmonary carcinoma is uncommon after lung transplant, but doubtlessly affects recipient survival independently of other complications. Small cell lung cancer is much rarer after transplant than non-small cell lung cancer. We report a case of mediastinal small cell lung carcinoma confirmed by endobronchial ultrasound biopsy that occurred 18 months after a single lung transplant for interstitial...

CASE HISTORY A 43-yr-old Chinese female presented with dry cough, weight loss of 2 kg, and progressive breathlessness of 1 month duration. Her symptoms progressed despite two courses of oral antibiotics (a macrolide and a b-lactam) and traditional Chinese medication. There was no fever, wheeze, haemoptysis or chest discomfort. She was a life-long nonsmoker and worked in an office environment wi...

PURPOSE Cigarette smoking is a major risk factor in periodontal diseases. The pathogenesis of periodontal diseases may be affected by alterations of the inflammatory response by smoke. Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous, colorless, highly reactive, short-lived free radical with a pivotal role in the regulation of various physiological and pathological mechanisms in the body. It is important in host...

Spherical monodisperse ferromagnetic iron oxide particles of 1.9-microm geometric and 4.2-microm aerodynamic diameter were inhaled by 13 healthy nonsmoking subjects using the shallow bolus technique. The bolus width was 100 ml, and the penetration front depth was 150 +/- 27 ml. The mean flow rate during inhalation and exhalation was 250 ml/s. The Fowler dead space and the phase 1 dead space of ...