A case of pulmonary aspergillosis discovered due to calcium oxalate crystals in bronchial brushing cytological specimens.

[Pulmonary aspergillosis due to methimazole-induced neutropenia: a case report].

A 48-year old woman with a recent diagnosis of Graves' disease arrived at the emergency room with fever, palpitations, and a sore throat. Her regular treatment included methimazole. On admission, laboratory results showed suppressed TSH, elevated free thyroxine, and neutropenia. She was admitted and started on antibiotics and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (gm-csf). After ten ...

Calcium oxalate crystals in the lungs.

A 67-year-old man who had been prescribed prednisolone for 20 months consulted our department due to repeated episodes of pneumonia. Computed tomography showed a large cavity in the apex of the right lung (Picture A, arrow). A fungal culture of a sample aspirated from the cavity revealed black-colored colonies (Picture B), which were later confirmed to be Aspergillus niger. A Grocott’s methenam...

Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Ostrich

Application of centrifugal pump in right ventricular failure due to pulmonary artery hypertension. (A case report)

Background: It has not been yet developed a ost suitable method to treat right ventricular failure due to pulmonar artery hypertention resulted from ventricular arrhythia. Though some case reports about patients ready to heart transplant using left assist device or biventral assist device as bridge have been published in Journals, but nocase concerning application of centrifugal pump for treatm...

Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicating Bronchial Atresia

Bronchial atresia is a rare pulmonary developmental anomaly characterized by the presence of a focal obliteration of a segmental or lobar bronchial lumen. The lung distal to the atretic bronchus is typically emphysematous along with the presence of mucus filled ectatic bronchi (mucoceles). BA is usually asymptomatic but pulmonary infections can rarely develop in the emphysematous lung distal to...