ABSTRACT
Tube thoracostomy is known to cause complications such as bleeding or infection, but the incidence of chylothorax secondary to tube thoracostomy is under-reported, and therefore, we report this case. A patient was diagnosed as systemic lupus erythematosus with pleural and pericardial involvement. During repeated therapeutic thoracentesis, which were performed because of poor response to steroids and cylophosphamide, hemothorax developed and we therefore inserted a chest tube. The pleural effusion changed from red to milky color in several hours and we diagnosed the pleural effusion as chylothorax. Total parenteral nutrition based on medium-chain triglycerides was supplied to this patient and chylothorax was improved after 4 days.
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Humans , Chest Tubes , Chylothorax , Hemorrhage , Hemothorax , Incidence , Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic , Parenteral Nutrition, Total , Pleural Effusion , Steroids , Thoracostomy , TriglyceridesABSTRACT
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a frequent manifestation of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The classic chest radiographic finding is perihilar ground glass opacities that may progress to more diffuse lung involvement. Atypical radiographic appearances include a normal chest film, lobar or segmental consolidation, cystic lesions, cavitation, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and solitary or multiple pulmonary nodules. Although PCP is common in AIDS, presenting with nodular pulmonary densities is rare. We encountered the case of a 33-year-old man with AIDS whose chest radiography showed multiple bilateral nodular patterns suggestive of malignancy. We performed a transcutaneous lung biopsy and diagnosed him with PCP by Gomori methenamine-silver staining. Along with fungal and mycobacterial infections, intrathoracic Kaposi's sarcoma, and lymphoma, PCP should be considered in the differential diagnosis of nodular pulmonary disease in AIDS patients.
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Adult , Humans , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , Biopsy , Diagnosis, Differential , Glass , Lung , Lung Diseases , Lymphoma , Multiple Pulmonary Nodules , Pleural Effusion , Pneumocystis , Pneumocystis carinii , Pneumonia , Pneumothorax , Sarcoma, Kaposi , ThoraxABSTRACT
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are widely distributed in nature and are usually of low pathogenic potential. NTM rarely has been recognized as a cause of musculoskeletal infections that involve joints, bone and soft tissue in immunocompetent patients. The risk factors of its infection are local traumas caused by surgery, injury, or injection. A fifty five-year-old immunocompetent patient visted to hospital due to right wrist mass and pain. Excisional biopsy was done. Histologically granulomatous inflammation was identified and Mycobacterium intracellulare was cultured. Although very rare, NTM should be suspected at least once as a causative pathogen of chronic arthritis when the cause is uncertain.
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Humans , Arthritis , Biopsy , Inflammation , Joints , Mycobacterium , Mycobacterium avium Complex , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria , Risk Factors , WristABSTRACT
Carcinomas of the stomach can spread to adjacent structure by local extension or metastasize to lymph nodes, peritoneum and distant organs. However, the incidence of metastatic bladder cancer originated at the stomach is very rare. A fifty-five year-old man admitted complaining of epigastric pain for 2 months. A large ulceroinfiltrative lesion was seen in the low body, which was confirmed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma by histological examination. Abdomino- pelvic CT scan showed wall thickening at the greater curvature side of gastric body and urinary bladder. Urine cytology was negative. By transurethral resection of bladder, he was diagnosed as metastatic adenocarcinoma of the bladder. We report a case of stomach cancer with metastasis to urinry bladder.