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Lymphangioma, Cystic/diagnostic imaging , Mediastinal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Adult , Bronchogenic Cyst/diagnosis , Chest Pain/etiology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Hypertension/complications , Lymphangioma, Cystic/pathology , Lymphangioma, Cystic/surgery , Mediastinal Neoplasms/pathology , Mediastinal Neoplasms/surgery , Teratoma/diagnosisABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Since few years, the data describing the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have changed and new concepts have emerged. AIM: To study the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with COPD in a Tunisian population. METHODS: It is a retrospective study including 150 patients with COPD admitted at the pulmonary department of Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, during a period of ten years. RESULTS: Data from 150 patients hospitalized at the pulmonary department of Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, were analyzed. They were 126 men and 24 women with a mean age of 67 years. Tobacco was the predominant risk factor. Eighty-two (55%) patients were classified GOLD stage IV at diagnosis. The number of exacerbation varied from 1 to 7 with an average higher in patients classified as stage IV (p = 0.007). CONCLUSION: The COPD is pathology of smoking men. Comorbidities and exacerbations prevalence increase according the disease severity. In fact, better knowledge of exacerbations etiologies allows considering better measurement of prevention.
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Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Disease Progression , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/therapy , Retrospective Studies , Tunisia/epidemiologyABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: Lung mycosis is rare. Diagnosis and treatment must be done the earliest possible. METHODS: It is about a retrospective study on clinical records including patients hospitalized for lung infection. RESULTS: From 2008 to 2011, 16 patients (13 men and three women, average age 42 years) developed a pulmonary infection. Twelve of our patients had respiratory or extrarespiratory histories. None of our patients had a neutropenia. The diagnoses were lung aspergilloma in four cases, invasive lung aspergillosis in three cases, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in three cases, mucormycosis in three cases, trichosporonosis in a case, actinomycosis in one case and penicilliosis in one case. An antifungal treatment consisting in amphotericin B or itraconazole was given to four patients and six patients, respectively. Surgery was chosen for six patients. The evolution was good for 12 patients, one presented renal failure, and three patients died.
