Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia in endemic areas of the southwestern United States. The clinical spectrum of this disease ranges from an asymptomatic presentation to severe disease with ARDS and hypoxemic respiratory failure. Despite evidence supporting the use of corticosteroids for severe pulmonary disease in other fungal infections, there is cur...

Pulmonary Aspergillus infections are caused by the ubiquitous fungus mold when spores found in compost, dust, and plant material inhaled. Manifestation of disease is represented a delicate balance between host pathogen interactions, making infection more commonly observed immunocompromised individuals. Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis (CCPA) subtype Aspergillosis associated with history...

Pultnonary complications represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients (IP). The varied etiologies of pulmonary disease in IPs include pyogenic, mycobacterial and opportunistic infections, drug-induced pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, pulmonary parenchymal involvement by the underlying disease process, and intrapulmonary hemorrhage. With the increasing use of c...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been increasingly recognized as an important cause of chronic pulmonary infections. The Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), which is composed of two species, Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracelluare, is the most commonly encountered pathogen associated with NTM lung disease. MAC pulmonary infection typically presents in a fibrocavitary form or a ...

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital malformation of lung in which part the supplied by an anomalous systemic blood supply from thoracic or abdominal aorta. This nonfunctioning tissue and lacks normal communication with tracheobronchial tree. It develops accessory bud. If developed before pleura formation, it results intralobar sequestration, extralobar, if after formation. Usually Intr...

BACKGROUND Lung sequestration is a rare congenital pulmonary disorder and is usually diagnosed in children with recurrent pulmonary infections. Lung sequestrations are not commonly found to be a cause of respiratory symptoms in adults. OBJECTIVES It was the aim of this study to show that pulmonary sequestration is rare in advanced age and can be accompanied by severe pulmonary symptoms. MET...

Abstract Background Pulmonary hemosiderosis is a rare disease that may be idiopathic or have secondary etiology, such as mitral stenosis. The clinical and functional consequence of iron overload in the lungs form hemosiderin. diagnosis should considered patients with miliary nodules on chest tomography. Case presentation We report case 30-year-old man severe stenosis who presented pain dyspnea....

With increasing numbers of immune-compromised patients with malignancy, hematologic disease, and HIV, as well as those receiving immunosupressive drug regimens for the management of organ transplantation or autoimmune inflammatory conditions, the incidence of fungal infections has dramatically increased over recent years. Definitive diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infections has also been substan...

With increasing numbers of immune-compromised patients with malignancy, hematologic disease, and HIV, as well as those receiving immunosupressive drug regimens for the management of organ transplantation or autoimmune inflammatory conditions, the incidence of fungal infections has dramatically increased over recent years. Definitive diagnosis of pulmonary fungal infections has also been substan...