Although elderly hospitalized patients, irrespective of the cause of hospitalization, are known to be at a high risk of subsequent development of pneumonia, some studies suggest the risk to be even higher in those hospitalized for pneumonia than in those hospitalized for other diseases. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the association of hospitalization for pneumonia and som...

Background Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) is a Primary Immunodeficiency characterized by an association of IgG deficiency with IgA and/or IgM deficiency, and a decrease in the function of specific antibodies, discarding other causes of hipogamaglobulinemia. The recurrent pneumonia are among the main clinical manifestations of CVID,which appear between 20 and 40 years of age in most cas...

COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, producing a multitude of concerning sequela in all genders and age groups. One surprising finding is onset depression post COVID recovery patients with no past medical history psychiatric illness. The following case report discusses 52-year-old female pneumonia secondary to April 2021, who presented recurrent falls syncopal episode. On review systems, it w...

We describe a case of congenital non-functional adrenocortical carcinoma in a male infant who presented with recurrent pneumonia, paraparesis and sclerotic skeletal metastasis. To the best of our knowledge such presentation has never been reported.

Intralobar pulmonary sequestration is a relatively rare congenital anomaly. The commonest clinical presentation is with chronic cough, expectoration and recurrent attacks of pneumonia. An unusual presentation with a psoas abscess is reported.

A 72-year-old Japanese woman with rheumatoid arthritis whose activity decreased with previous treatments had recurrent thunderclap headaches during an atovaquone regimen for the treatment of pneumocystis pneumonia. The recurrent headaches disappeared after discontinuation of the drug. Brain magnetic resonance images showed multiple cerebral vasoconstrictions of cerebral arteries with vasogenic ...

Infants delivered prematurely often have respiratory distress related to surfactant deficiency or pneumonia. The current case describes a premature neonate who presented with increased work of breathing and recurrent left pneumothorax. Although chest x-ray showed left upper lobe changes consistent with pulmonary interstitial emphysema, subsequent CT scan performed due to recurrent pneumothorace...

INTRODUCTION Qing fei tang, which is used for various respiratory diseases, is useful for reducing relapse of aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia in stroke, but the effect remains unknown in Parkinson's syndrome. We report two cases of Japanese patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and relapsing aspiration pneumonia and bronchopneumonia, which was successfully prevented by qing fei...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Critically ill patients represent a population with multiple risk factors for aspiration. Features such as decreased level of consciousness, mechanical ventilation, and comorbities as stroke, correlate with this increased threat in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Recognition of deglutition dysfunction may identify patients at high risk of aspiration, and thereby he...

the hyperimmunoglobulin e syndromes (hiess) are very rare immunodeficiency syndromes with multisystem involvement, including immune system, skeleton, connective tissue, and dentition. hies are characterized by the classic triad of high serum levels of immunoglobulin e (ige), recurrent staphylococcal cold skin abscess, and recurrent pneumonia with pneumatocele formation. most cases of hies are s...