Swine flue is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease caused by a subtype of influenza A virus. Herein we present three patients with H1N1 infection complicated with pulmonary thromboembolism. The patients had chest pain and unexplained dyspnea. Imaging studies showed bilateral hilar predominance. Computed tomographic angiography confirmed bilateral thromboembolism (an unusual presentatio...

Hydatid cyst is a helminth infection. The rupture of a hepatic hydatid cyst in inferior vena cava is a rare and lethal complication. Pulmonary embolism is the commonest manifestation. The diagnosis of hydatid cyst is made by histopathological or serological examination, and imaging may suggest the probability of hydatid cyst. Surgical treatment should be performed with caution and always under ...

BACKGROUND Extramedullary plasmacytoma is a rare plasma cell neoplasm within soft tissue and without bone marrow involvement or other systemic characteristics of multiple myeloma. Primary pulmonary plasmacytoma is a rare type of extramedullary plasmacytoma. CASE PRESENTATION A 48-year-old male with a tumor in the right middle ear was referred to our hospital. A routine chest X-ray was arrange...

Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) is a rare presentation of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. While histoplasmosis has been reported to cause hemoptysis and alveolar hemorrhage in children, the English language literature lacks any adult case reports documenting this association. We report a case of pulmonary histoplasmosis where the initial presentation was pneumonia with a subsequent diagnosis ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis is rampant in some countries. The disease an outcome of infection by Mycobacterium and more common immunocompromised individuals. Furthermore, mycetoma or a fungal ball can develop cavitary lesions tuberculosis. present case rare presentation pulmonary with concomitant Aspergillus diabetic Indian male. A clinical examination strong laboratory radiological workup helped es...

Idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysms are a rare and difficult to diagnose vascular entity. Because symptoms are nonspecific or absent, they are sometimes diagnosed as a chance finding on imaging. We report the case of a 63-year-old female smoker, with no cardiovascular symptoms, who underwent an outpatient study following detection of multiple mediastinal and pulmonary nodules in a preoperativ...

BACKGROUND Fungi can cause a variety of infectious diseases, including invasive mycosis and non-invasive mycosis, as well as allergic diseases. The different forms of mycosis usually have been described as mutually exclusive, independent entities, with few descriptions of overlapping cases. Here, we describe the first reported case of a patient with the complication of pulmonary eosinophilia in...

Copyright © 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society. The clinical presentation of acute pulmonary embolism ranges from shock or sustained hypotension to mild dyspnea. Pulmonary embolism may even be asymptomatic and diagnosed by imaging procedures performed for other purposes. Depending on the clinical presentation, the case fatality rate for acute pulmonary embolism ranges from about 60% to less tha...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially fatal condition that presents with shortness of breath and chest pain. Although an electrocardiogram (ECG) may show changes associated PE, ST elevation mimicking myocardial infarction not common in patients acute PE. This presentation documents the case 67-year-old man who presented to emergency department dyspnea ECG data indicated anterior septal ische...