A 38-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a 12-hour onset of shortness of breath and position-related chest pain. In the last 3 months, he had had 2 similar but less intense episodes, each of which lasted for approximately 1 week. Both episodes were associated with subfebrility, flulike symptoms (dry cough, nasal obstruction), and increased fatigue and resolved with nonste...

fungal sinus infections are being recognized with increasing frequency. we report a case with rhino cerebral and chest phaeohyphomycosis infection caused by cladosporium bantianum in an 18 year old man with wegener's granulomatosis. the diagnosis was established by histopathological appearance, direct examination, culture and computerized tomography (ct) scan. this case was successfully tr...

INTRODUCTION Wegener granulomatosis (WG) is a rare idiopathic autoimmune disease causing necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis. Whether as the first symptom or as part of systemic changes, ocular manifestations in WG patients are not specific. Any part of the eyes can be affected, with the anterior segment and orbit most commonly involved. So, early diagnosis and treatment are essential for cont...

Summers and colleagues (January 2002)1 showed a beneficial method for detecting central airways involvement in patients with Wegener granulomatosis (WG). Indeed, CT virtual bronchoscopy (VB) has an advantage in visualizing stenosis of the airways over either CT scanning alone or bronchoscopy alone. The investigators applied the method to 11 patients with WG, however, they did not describe any d...