Fulminating Postoperative Staphylococcal Bronchopneumonia

Pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium in staphylococcal bronchopneumonia.

A 21 year old young male, known asthmatic and chronic smoker presented with history of fever, cough with expectoration and exacerbation of breathlessness of 2 days duration. After admission he was treated with bronchodilators and antibiotics. After six hours of admission he developed severe retrosternal chest pain and respiratory distress. His BP was 110/80 mmHg, pulse rate >120/m, respiratory ...

Staphylococcal postoperative subannular left ventricular false aneurysm.

A 37-year-old male with acute complicated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve endocarditis underwent urgent valve replacement with a bileaflet prosthesis. The postoperative course was complicated with fever and heart failure. Echocardiography showed a large subannular false aneurysm of the left ventricle. Three weeks later resection and closure of the defect with a patch ma...

Interstitial Bronchopneumonia

Bacterial toxins can produce a pneumonia similar to that caused by viruses, and the presence of a toxin-producing bacterium in the lungs may account for some of the interstitial bronchopneumonias observed in diseases other than those caused by viruses.

Fulminating Pulmonary Nocardiosis.

Bronchopneumonia in Adolescence

The information which we possess in regard to bronchopneu-monia chiefly concerns that disease as it is seen either in young children or in adults of advanced years. There is little information regarding the clinical, roentgenographic, and laboratory findings of this disease as it occurs in adolescents. Lord3 considers that primary bronchopneumonia is a disease usually seen in patients younger t...