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A case of W-P-W syndrome complicated with pulmonary hypoplasia disclosed by pneumonectomy for pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex infection associated with intractable pneumothorax was reported. A male patient aged 52 years consulted our clinic with chief complaints of cough and abnormal shadows on his chest radiogram, which was consistent with mycobacteriosis on his left lung. MAC infection was soon confirmed by sputum examination and he was treated with RFP, EB, INH combined with CAM. In spite of the chemotherapy, sputum examination of the patient remained positive. Furthermore, eleven months after initiating the treatment, an intractable pneumothorax concurrent with a large dead space at the left lower lung field was consistently observed on his chest radiogram. Therefore, he was first treated by video assisted thoracoscopic surgery, but soon relapsed which led to tention pneumothorax gradually. Consequently, a left pneumonectomy had to be performed and the following developmental abnormalities combined with pathological changes caused by MAC infection were disclosed: concerning the upper lobe, defect of lingula, formation of a peripheral type of congenital air-filled parenchymal cyst measuring 5 x 6 cm in S3, and atelectatic induration caused by MAC infection on the remaining part of the upper lobe where strong adhesion was seen between the chest wall and the lung. Concerning the lower lobe, congenital shortening of visceral pleura, mainly mediastinal surface, causing marked deformity of the lower lobe with elevation of margo inferior. This created a large dead space between the lower lobe and diaphragma, and formation of a walnut-sized nest of atelectatic induration caused by MAC infection in S6. The patient's post-operative clinical course was uneventful and his arterial blood gas was elevated from 76 torr to 99.2 torr. He was discharged three weeks after the operation. Several controversial issues relating to this case were discussed; the predisposition existing on the hypoplastic lung to MAC infection, the possible reason why the congenital pulmonary cyst was not involved in MAC infection, the location of perforation of the upper lobe that caused intractable pneumothorax, and the difficulty in diagnosing congenital air-filled bullous parenchymal cyst by current conventional chest radiogram.
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PMID:[An adult case of hypoplasia of the left lung disclosed by pneumonectomy for pulmonary M. avium complex infection associated with intractable pneumothorax]. 1467 47

A 23-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of cough and sputum in April 2001. A chest roentgenogram revealed infiltrative shadow with cavity formation in the bilateral lung fields. He was treated with sensitive antituberculous drugs. After starting the antituberculous therapy with INH, RFP, EB and PZA, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy developed. Three months later, pericostal abscess appeared in the left anterior chest wall. Microscopic examination of the specimen obtained by needle aspiration biopsy disclosed positive for acid-fast bacilli. Smears of the pus showed acidfast bacilli identified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA-DNA PCR method. He developed tuberculous bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy and pericostal abscess during the course of antituberculosis chemotherapy. Drug sensitivity test revealed that tubercle bacilli in this case were sensitive. One year after the administration of chemotherapy, cervical lymphadenopathy and pericostal abscess were improved. Both masses were discontinuous with pulmonary tuberculosis and the possibility of lymphogenous spread of organism was speculated as its etiology. We assumed that both masses were due to paradoxical response to the antituberculosis chemotherapy.
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PMID:[A case of pulmonary tuberculosis complicated with tuberculosis of bilateral cervical lymph nodes and exacerbated pericostal abscess]. 1496 83

We reported a case of pulmonary infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complicated by endobronchial spread. Chest roentogenography and CT for an 85-year-old male complaining of cough showed endobronchial spread in right upper lung field. His sputum culture for eight weeks showed 10-20 colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Transbronchial lung biopsy revealed granulomas with caseous necrosis. Findings in chest XP and CT after the therapy with INH, RFP and EB for six months showed much improvement.
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PMID:[Pulmonary tuberculosis case with consistant findings of endobronchial spread in chest roentogenography for about three years: a case report]. 1548 31

A 27-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to a painful mass in the right neck and fever. Cervical and superior mediastinal computed tomography showed an enlargement of right supraclavicular lymph node and multiple swollen mediastinal lymph nodes, including low-density areas and contrast medium-enhanced septa and margins. Smears of the pus obtained from right supraclavicular lymph node showed acidfast bacilli identified as Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR method. He was treated with antituberculous drugs with INH, RFP, EB, and PZA. PZA was given for initial two months. Six months later, productive cough developed and chest X-ray films showed infiltrative shadow in the right upper lung field. One month after the onset of cough, bronchoscopy revealed a polypoid lesion with a white coating in the right main bronchus. Microscopic examination of the specimen obtained by transbrochial biopsy revealed many epithelioid cell granulomas, consistent with tuberculosis. From these findings, pulmonary lesion was suggested to be due to invasion of the mediastinal lymph node into the bronchus. After one year of antituberculous chemotherapy, the swelling of the cervical-mediastinal lymph nodes was reduced and the abnormal chest X-ray shadows disappeared.
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PMID:[An adult case of cervico-mediastinal lymph nodes tuberculosis followed by the development of pulmonary lesions during the treatment with antituberculous drugs]. 1583 59

A 72-year-old male was referred to our hospital in August 2001 for his pulmonary M. fortuitum infection. His symptoms were coughing, pyrexia, hemoptysis, general malaise, and insomnia. He had been suffering from these symptoms since 1982, though the intensive anti-mycobacterial chemotherapy such as three-drug (RFP, SM, and INH), twice two-drug (KM and SM and cycloserine and enviomycin) and four-drug (CAM, EB, RFP, and KM) regimens were administered for 26 months from July 1999. His symptoms tentatively improved after chemotherapy, but soon recurred with smear positive sputum. We decided to withdraw all antibacterial agents to treat him with decoction of Ninjinyoueito according to the diagnostics Kampo medical science in September 2001. After this prescription, his subjective symptoms gradually improved, and ten months later his sputum converted to smear negative. Because of recurrence of his general malaise in August 2002, we replaced the Ninjinyoueito by Seishoekkito, based on the Kampo diagnostics. His physical conditions remained good until 2005. In addition, the sputum smear examination maintain the level below +/-. We evaluate that Kampo (Chinese traditional medicine) treatment resulted in favorable response. Though it is not common to prescribe Kampo-medicine for intractable infectious diseases, we believe that Kampo-medicine is effective in some cases associated with host defense mechanisms.
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PMID:[A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium fortuitum infection successfully treated with Kampo treatments]. 1697 56

Cases of syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) associated with tuberculosis have been reported, however, in most of these cases, tuberculosis disease is miliary or severe. Here we report the first case of SIADH induced by ethionamide (TH). The case is a 76 year-old woman. She noticed cough in April 2004 and chest X-ray showed infiltrative shadows on the right upper lung field. Sputum examination revealed positive for TB-PCR, and she was referred to our hospital. Treatment was started with the combination of isoniazid (INH), rifampicin and ethambutol, however susceptibility test showed the bacilli were resistant to INH, then INH was replaced by TH on day 59. Loss of appetite developed 4 days later, the level of consciousness dropped to Japan Coma Scale II-20, and the Na concentration decreased to 113 mEq/l 6 days later. We made the diagnosis of SIADH based on the diagnostic criteria. She recovered from SIADH by the replacement of TH with SM, the restriction of water intake, and the loading of Na. Judging from the coincidence of the administration of TH and the onset of SIADH, no recurrence of SIADH after the cessation of TH, the mildness of tuberculosis, and the onset of SIADH in an already recovered case, we thought that SIADH in this case was causedly TH. Not only adrenal insufficiency but also SIADH should be considered when patients with tuberculosis show hyponatremia, and drugs on use should be reviewed as the possible cause of SIADH.
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PMID:[Case of SIADH caused by ethionamide in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis]. 1724 Sep 18

Abstract A 27-year-old man admitted for high fever, wet cough and abnormality on his chest radiograph. He was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis, and started treatment with INH, RFP, EB, and PZA. After other examinations, he was diagnosed as having a acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, too. We gave him zidovudine and lamivudine/ abacavir sulfate to treat HIV infection. After starting treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs his fever alleviated, but after 10 days from the start of anti-HIV drugs, he showed high fever, and abnormality of his chest radiograph exacervated. We diagnosed him as immune reconstitution syndrome, and gave him prednisolone 30 mg/day. His symptoms improved gradually.
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PMID:[A case of tuberculosis showing immune reconstitution syndrome after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection]. 1731 Jul 79

A 44-year-old man consulted medical clinic, complaining of cough and sputum. Then he was admitted to our hospital, because of positive acid-fast bacilli in his sputum and positive PCR (polymerase chain reaction) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Combined use of isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RFP), ethambutol (EB) and pyrazinamide (PZA) was started. But 4 days after starting treatment, we had to suspend tuberculosis chemotherapy because of hepatopathy. Since then he started to complain epigastralgia and vomiting. Plain abdominal X-ray and abdominal computed tomography (CT) led to a diagnosis of ileus. Inspite of insertion of ileus tube symptoms of ileus did not improve. Small bowl series showed severe stenosis at ileum end, necessitating jejunectomy. Macroscopic study revealed a ring ulcer and multiple epithelioid cell granuloma with Langhans' giant cells was detected histopathologically. PCR for M. tuberculosis of extracts from ileum was positive. Therefore the patient was diagnosed small intestinal tuberculosis. Treatment was continued by the combination of INH, RFP, EB, and the symptoms markedly improved. There have been no sign of recurrence since the end of the 6-month treatment for tuberculosis.
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PMID:[A surgically treated case of ileus caused by small intestinal tuberculosis during treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis]. 1818 80

Data from different regional hospitals of Saudi Arabia were collected to know the prevalence, clinical features and results of therapy of tuberculosis, in patients on dialysis. Eight hospitals located in five different provinces of Saudi Arabia were involved. There were 132 patients with TB on dialysis of whom 75 were males (mean ages in different hospitals ranging 42-58 years) and 57 were females (mean ages ranging 38-58 years). The prevalence of TB in these patients varied from 2.4 to 14.5% with an average of 7%, which is 12 times commoner than in the general population of Saudi Arabia. The presenting clinical features were fever (65%), cough (17%), weight loss (59%) and anorexia (58%). The organs/systems involved by TB were pulmonary in 73 (55.3%), lymphadenopathy in 30 (22.7%) peritoneal in 27 (20.4%) and bone in seven (5.3%). The diagnosis of TB was made by X-ray chest in 73, positive acid fast bacilli in sputum in 38, lymph node biopsy in 30, ascitic fluid examination in 20 and other tests in 17 patients. Four anti-TB drugs namely, isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (Rif), ethambutol (Eth) and pyrazinamide (Pyra) were used in 58 patients (44%) for six months; three drugs namely, INH, Rif, and Eth or Pyra were used in 61 patients (46%) for a variable period of six to 12 months. A total of 28 (21%) patients expired, eight while on therapy, one before starting the therapy and 19 after they were cured of TB. The main causes of death were sepsis in eight (28.5%), cardiovascular in seven (25%) and sudden death in six (21%). TB was not the direct cause of death in any of the patients except one, in whom it could be contributory.
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PMID:Spectrum of tuberculosis in dialysis patients in saudi arabia. 1820 39

Patients after organ transplantations are at risk for mycobacteriosis development. Frequency of the mycobacterial infection after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is not as high as one could expect. It ranges from 0.4 to 4.9%. We present a case of a female patient after allogenic BMT as a treatment of chronic myelogenous leucaemia, with bronchiolitis obliterans as a symptom of graft versus host disease (GvHD), treated with corticosteroids and infected with Mycobacterium avium. She was admitted to the hospital with dyspnoea, cough with large amount of sputum production and subfebrile status. She had partial respiratory insufficiency and obturative disturbances of respiration (FEV(1) 0.67 l i.e. 22% of normal) with decline of VC (2.23 l i.e. 64% of normal). The high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) revealed multifocal infiltrations and bronchiectases in the upper and middle pulmonary fields, which were absent in the previous HRCT taken 3 years earlier. In the bronchial secretion acid-fast bacilli were found by smear and culture. The isolate was classified as Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The patient was treated with clarithromycin, ciprofloxacin, isoniazide (INH), ethambutol (EMB), amikacin, but M. avium was still present in the sputum after 3 months. Treatment was continued in her parent hospital, where after a few months her sputum became negative for M. avium. But she died over a year later from progressive respiratory insufficiency in the course of bronchiolitis obliterans. The patient was in the group of high risk for mycobacterial infection development and the course of her illness was typical. We decided however to present the case as the topic seems to be quite neglected in the literature.
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PMID:[Mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium avium in allogenic bone marrow transplant recipient with concomittant bronchiolitis obliterans as a manifestation of graft versus host disease - case report and review of the literature]. 1846 26


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