ABSTRACT
The patient was an 83-year-old man hospitalized for Haemophilus influenzae pneumonia, who developed recurrent pneumonia after improvement of the initial episode. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 12 was isolated from the sputum, accompanied by increased serum antibody titers to L. pneumophila serogroup 12. Therefore, the patient was diagnosed as having Legionella pneumonia caused by L. pneumophila serogroup 12. Case reports of pneumonia caused by L. pneumophila serogroup 12 are rare, and the case described herein is the first report of clinical isolation of this organism in Japan. When the genotype was determined by the protocol of The European Working Group for Legionella Infections (Sequence-Based Typing [SBT] for epidemiological typing of L. pneumophila, Version 3.1), the sequence type was ST68. Imipenem/cilastatin therapy was found to be effective for the treatment of Legionella pneumonia in this patient.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Imipenem/therapeutic use , Legionella pneumophila/isolation & purification , Legionnaires' Disease/drug therapy , Pneumonia, Bacterial/drug therapy , Aged, 80 and over , Humans , Japan , Legionella pneumophila/classification , Legionella pneumophila/drug effects , Legionnaires' Disease/microbiology , Male , Pneumonia, Bacterial/microbiology , Serotyping , Sputum/microbiologyABSTRACT
The full picture of immunoglobulin G4-related lung disease (IgG4-RLD) has not yet been elucidated. A 69-year-old man was referred to us with a more than 2-week history of productive cough and fatigue. Chest CT showed an airspace consolidation along the bronchovascular bundles. The pathological findings that were obtained from an open-lung biopsy showed both organizing pneumonia and interstitial pneumonia. Based on the established, comprehensive diagnostic criteria for IgG4-related disease (RD) as of 2011, this patient was given a definitive diagnosis of IgG4-RD. A further accumulation and analysis of those cases that concomitantly present with both IgG4-RLD and organizing pneumonia, like our patient, may contribute to the elucidation of the pathology of IgG4-RLD and the establishment of the disease spectrum.
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Immunoglobulin G/metabolism , Lung Diseases/immunology , Pneumonia/immunology , Aged , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Lung Diseases/diagnosis , Lung Diseases, Interstitial/diagnosis , Lung Diseases, Interstitial/drug therapy , Lung Diseases, Interstitial/immunology , Male , Pneumonia/diagnosis , Pneumonia/drug therapy , Prednisolone/therapeutic use , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
An 83-year-old man presented with a three-week history of dyspnea. The clinical features suggested a diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis (RP); however, the patient died of heart failure. An autopsy revealed active chondritis of the tracheal and bronchial cartilage. Furthermore, giant cell myocarditis (GCM) and myositis were detected. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first report of RP complicated by GCM and myositis. In patients with RP, GCM and myositis, CD163-positive macrophages and T-cells are most common, and the T-cell subset exhibits CD8 predominance. Common mechanisms of tissue damage caused by cytotoxic T-cells are likely to contribute to RP, GCM and myositis.
