The authors report 2 cases of primary pulmonary lymphoma. The first case was a 65 year old woman with a diagnosis of lymphocytic lymphoma confirmed by surgical biopsy, after being suspected on the basis of bronchoscopic biopsies and bronchiolo-alveolar aspiration. Twenty one months after the beginning of treatment with chemotherapy and six months after this treatment was completed, the patient ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Hypersensitity pneumonitis, caused by inhalation of various antigens, is characterized by interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration, nonnecrotizing granulomas, cellular bronchiolitis, and fibrosis. The pathological picture of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis is, however, complicated; it is sometimes difficult to differentiate chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis from idio...

Chronic lung disease (CLD) in children represents a heterogeneous group of many distinct clinicopathological entities. The prevalence of CLD has increased in the past decade because of the more advanced and intensive respiratory support provided for compromised children and additionally the overall improved survival of preterm babies. The disorders which constitute CLD generally have a slow tem...

It has been reported that 9%-42% psychiatric patients suffer from complications such as dysphagia and eating disorders [1], which can result in serious problems such as aspiration pneumonitis and suffocation [2-4]. Psychogenic eating disorders result from specific psychiatric disorders, whereas drug-induced dysphagia results from other causes [5,6]. Pharmacological actions, such as sedation, an...

Idelalisib is a novel treatment option for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A rare, but, fatal complication of using Idelalsib drug induced pneumonitis. This article presents case pneumonitis in patient leukemia along brief discussion management plan.

PURPOSE We conducted a meta-analysis of published clinical trials to determine the relationship between the risks of pneumonitis and pneumonitis-related death and programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) inhibitor treatment in patients with cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined clinical trials from the Medline and Google Scholar databases. Data from original studies and review articles were also cr...

My colleague and collaborator, the late Edgar G. Harrison, Jr., M.D., was of the opinion that “desquamation” was a fundamental phenomenon in the spectrum of usual interstitial pneumonitis. In our report’ on classic interstitial pneumonitis-flbrosis, we found that almost two-thirds of our biopsies revealed this finding. Harrison believed that the designation, “desquamative interstitial pneurnoni...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of injection laryngoplasty using a temporary injectable agent in the acute setting for patients with unilateral vocal cord paralysis following thoracic surgical procedures. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective consecutive case series in an academic institution. METHODS Inclusion criteria included pa...

Introduction: The purpose in this study is to analyze of DVH parameters as predictors of radiation pneumonitis and investigation on the relationship between dosimetric and clinical parameters based on PFTs as response in NTCP model and therefore achieve to lung dose- response relation in breast cancer patients. Prescribed dose to treatment volumes was 50 Gy in 2.0 Gy/fractions ...

Objective: This prospective, randomized, double-blind study was performed to evaluate the effects of intravenous co-administration of metoclopramide and ranitidine on preoperative gastric contents in patients receiving general anesthesia for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery, a procedure with high risk of aspiration. Material and Methods: Eighty ASA physical status I-II consenting p...