Dangerous Bronchitis

[Plastic bronchitis].

Bronchitis plastica is a rare disorder that can occur at any age. It is characterised by formation of large, branching bronchial casts, which are often expectorated, but may be discovered only by bronchoscopy. In most cases, bronchial casts are secondary to underlying diseases of the lung, heart or lymph vessels. We report a case of plastic bronchitis associated with bilateral chylothorax. Prog...

Plastic Bronchitis

Figure 2. Bronchial Cast showing complete casting of right upper lobe (RUL), right middle lobe (RML) and right lower lobe (RLL). Figure 1. Computed tomography of the chest showing consolidation of right lower lobe with arrow showing pulgged bronchioles. A 45-year-old male with a one-month history of dyspnea and cough presented with productive sputum consisting of bronchial casts for several day...

Industrial bronchitis.

For many years there has been much argument whether workers in the dusty trades are prone to chronic bronchitis. In 1966 the Medical Research Council issued a report of a Select Committee which concluded that occupationally induced bronchitis did not play a significant part in the aetiology of airways obstruction in dust-exposed men. Since then epidemiological studies have demonstrated that the...

Dangerous Drugs

Dangerous liaisons

Cells during mitosis and meiosis undergo chromosome condensation through a process that depends on evolutionary conserved large protein complexes known as condensins. There are two condensing complexes, condensin i and ii, each of which is composed of five subunits. Condensin i and ii play essential, yet distinct, roles in chromosome condensation and segregation during mitosis. Recent findings ...