A Case of Pulmonary Thromboembolism in Active Ulcerative Colitis / 대한소화기학회지

Inflammatory bowel disease often involves extra-intestinal organs. Cerebral thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis and pulmonary thrombosis have been reported. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism are significant causes of mortality in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. A 48-year-old woman was diagnosed as inflammatory bowel disease on colonoscopy and histology. We used hydrocortisone and mesalazine for the treatment of disease. Nineteen days later, she complained of abrupt dyspnea. Pulmonary CT angiography revealed a thromboembolism in right pulmonary arteries. After the treatment of heparin therapy, follow-up pulmonary CT angiography showed significant improvement of previously thrombosed pulmonary arteries.

Gefitinib-induced Acute Fatal Respiratory Failure in a Woman who Never Smoked and had Adenocarinoma of the Lung with EGFR Mutation / 결핵및호흡기질환

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A Case of Systemic Sclerosis Complicated with Multifocal Osteoarticular Tuberculosis / 대한류마티스학회지

Multifocal skeletal tuberculosis is defined as osteoarticular lesions that occur simultaneously at two or more locations. Cystic lesions of multiple bones in tuberculosis are encountered less frequently in adults than in children. The multifocal cystic skeletal tuberculosis involving hands and feet is rare, particularly. We report a case of systemic sclerosis that was treated with glucocorticoid and antirheumatic drug for many years and complicated with multifocal cystic skeletal tuberculosis. This case was misled to the diagnosis of staphylococcal pyogenic abscess by the first microbial culture of the draining pus. The sonographic finding suggested rather metastatic bone lesion or systemic inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis. Although it is rare, tuberculosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of multiple cystic systemic skeletal lesions in immunocompromised patients.