Forty three years old male from Dhule district of Maharashtra presented to his family doctor in December 2004 with malaise, anorexia, haemoptysis. After baseline x-ray (Figure 1) and blood tests he was started on anti tuberculosis treatment (ATT). Patient kept getting recurrent haemoptysis for which repeated x-ray chest were performed (Figure 2). In January 2006 he got admitted to our hosp i ta...

A 4-year-old boy presented to the general practitioner (GP) with a 24-hour history of progressively worsening shortness of breath (SOB). Over this time period, a productive cough and fever had also developed. The patient had no history of respiratory disease and there were no sick contacts. For the last fortnight, however, his mother reported that he has " not been his usual self " : appearing ...

Eosinophilic disorders are rare and clinically challenging diagnoses. In part, the challenge comes from the fact that some classifications of eosinophilic diseases have been based on the site of eosinophilic infiltration whereas others have been based on the actual number of blood eosinophils present. We describe a 54-year-old woman who had a history of asthma and presented with shortness of br...