ABSTRACT
El propósito de este trabajo es examinar el caso de un paciente con una forma de presentación no habitual y grave de una patología poco frecuente, como la malformación adenomatoidea quística pulmonar. Se trata de un lactante de 50 días de vida que ingresó en la unidad de cuidados intensivos pediátricos con insuficiencia respiratoria y colapso circulatorio refractario a la expansión de volumen y los inotrópicos. La radiografía de tórax mostró una imagen radiolúcida, homogénea, en la base pulmonar derecha, que parecía corresponder a una lesión bullosa en el lóbulo inferior derecho, asociada a neumotórax homolateral. Se realizó drenaje con colocación de un tubo de avenamiento pleural y se observó una mejoría clínica posterior. Se efectuó la resección del quiste mediante lobectomía inferior derecha; el diagnóstico histopatológico fue malformación adenomatoidea quística de la vía aérea de tipo 4 (clasificación de Stocker). El paciente evolucionó favorablemente.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of a 50-day-old patient with an unusual and severe presentation of a rare disease: congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung. The infant was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with respiratory failure and circulatory collapse refractory to intravenous fluids and inotropic drugs. Chest X-ray showed a radiolucent homogeneous image in the right lung base, suggesting bullous lesion of the right lower lobe associated with ipsilateral pneumothorax. Drainage was performed by placing a chest tube with subsequent clinical improvement. Later the cyst was resected by right lower lobectomy; the histopathological diagnosis was congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation type 4 (Stocker classification). The patient evolved favorably.
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Humans , Infant , Male , Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital/complications , Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of Lung, Congenital/diagnosis , Pneumothorax/etiologyABSTRACT
Bact-Alert automatized system for blood cultures: 5 vs 7 days of incubation. First Argentine multicentre study. Between January and December 2001, we analyzed 80,141 blood cultures by the Bact-Alert system (14,960 FAN aerobics, 3,855 FAN anaerobic, 11,114 standards aerobics, 11,367 standards anaerobic, 12,054 pediatrics and 26,791 FAN pediatrics bottles) and 44.235 series from 27.615 patients at eight hospitals of Buenos Aires city, one of La Plata city and three of the Buenos Aires province. A total of 13,657 blood cultures yielded a positive result. Only 181 of them had been detected as positive between the 5th and 7th day of incubation and only 26 (0.19
) had clinical significance (Staphylococcus aureus 3; coagulase negative staphylococci 2; Enterococcus faecalis 1; Streptococcus pneumoniae 2; Campylobacter spp 1; Escherichia coli 1; Enterobacter cloacae 1; Enterobacteraerogenes 1; Citrobacter freundii 1; Klebsiella pneumoniae 1; Proteus mirabilis 1; Serratia marcescens 4; yeasts 7, including one strain of Cryptococcus neoformans). Of the total of contaminants, 38
were isolated by the anaerobic standard (65
were Propionibacterium spp and 29
by the FAN aerobic (33.3
difphteroids and 28.9
by the pediatric, 9
by aerobic standard and 1.4
by FAN anaerobic bottle. Our results show that the prolonged incubation of blood cultures for more than 5 days using the Bact-Alert system is unnecessary.