Bullous lungs: diverse aetiology

Bullous lungs: diverse aetiology.

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Q1: There was extensive cystic bullous involvement of lungs in both the cases, what could be the possible diagnosis? In the first case a diagnosis of cutis laxa—that is, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome—was made in view of elastic skin, past history of being operated for bilateral inguinal hernia, aphakic eyes, and presence of mitral valve prolapse. In the second case the diagnosis of Marfan’s syndrome w...

Occurrence of antigammaglobulins in effusion fluids of diverse aetiology.

Human antigammaglobulins have been detected in high frequency in non-rheumatoid arthritis pleural (Levine, Szanto, Grieble, Bach, and Anderson, 1968) and synovial (Huskisson, Hart, and Lacey, 1971) effusions. The agglutinators, termed rheumatoid factors, were found in a much higher frequency than the 1 to 5 per cent. range of positive serological tests reported for the general population (Bartf...

Bullous lung disease or bullous emphysema?

Bullous lung disease is an entity characterized by the presence of bullae in one or both the lung fields, with normal intervening lung.1,2 On the other hand, bullous emphysema is the presence of bullae in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and is characterized by the presence of centrilobular emphysema in the nonbullous lung.3–5 To select patients who are more likely t...

Carbamazepine-induced bullous eruption or bullous pemphigoid?