Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis: An Unusual Cause of Chronic Cough, Pleuritic Chest Pain, and Hemoptysis in a 24-Year-Old Coal Mine Worker

Fever, cough, pleuritic chest pain, and pleural fluid eosinophilia in a 30-year-old man.

An unusual cause of pleuritic chest pain on a CT pulmonary angiogram.

A 41-year-old lady with a history of breast carcinoma, was admitted for investigation of pleuritic chest pain. On examination, there were no focal abnormalities. Her white-cell count was mildly elevated at 12 x 10 cells/l and her biochemical profile was within normal limits. Her chest x-ray was unremarkable. A computed-tomography pulmonary-angiogram (CTPA) was subsequently performed which revea...

A 19-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain

Case presentation A 19-year-old woman with a medical history significant for poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (DM) (hemoglobin A1C 11.2%) presented with a 12-day history of right-sided pleuritic chest pain. One month earlier, she had developed sudden-onset fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. At the time, she did not have any gastrointestinal symptoms including epigastric pain, heartbur...

Fatal Hemoptysis due to Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicated by Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tuberculosis

A 51-year-old man, with a history of severe COPD and bilateral pneumothorax, who was under treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis due to mycobacterium avium, was admitted due to high-grade fever, weight loss, cough, and production of purulent sputum, for almost one month without any special improvement despite adequate antibiotics treatment in outpatient setting. A CT scan revealed multiple conso...

Abdominal Splenosis: An Unusual Cause of Bowel Obstruction in a 7-Year-Old Child

Splenosis is a rare condition defined as a heterotopic auto-transplantation of splenic tissue, typically after blunt abdominal trauma. It can occur anywhere in the abdominal cavity, or even the chest. Splenosis found in clinical practice is relatively rare because most patients are asymptomatic. We report a rare case of abdominal splenosis in a 7-year-old boy, 3 years after an abdominal blunt t...