This case report describes a patient with Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome (SJMS) in an adult male diagnosed on the basis of findings on X-ray chest, high resolution CT (HRCT) of chest and radionuclide perfusion lung scan. This rare syndrome is considered to be an acquired disease due to repeated pneumonias in early childhood.

Bacterial pathogens are responsible for the most severe forms of pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory tract infections (RTI), which have high morbidity and mortality rates especially among the elderly and children under 5 years [1]. Streptococcus pneumoniae accounts for the majority of community-acquired bacterial pneumonias and is also capable of causing meningitis, otitis media, and ot...

Viral bacterial coinfections are encountered in about one third of community aquired pneumonia cases in children. There is however very difficult to differentiate pneumonias ́ etiology using clinical, laboratory and radiological examination. We present a case of viral-bacterial coinfections and the challegences that this case imposed in both diagnostic and treatment decision. We shall also revie...

BACKGROUND Many girls bully others. They are conspicuous because of their risk-taking behavior, increased anger, problematic interpersonal relationships and poor quality of life. Our aim was to determine the efficacy of brief strategic family therapy (BSFT) for bullying-related behavior, anger reduction, improvement of interpersonal relationships, and improvement of health-related quality of li...