Gaucher's Disease of the Lungs

Gauchers disease presenting with portal hypertension.

Gauchers disease is a rare lysosomal storage disorder characterized by abnormal accumulation of lipid-laden macrophages in different organs. Though hepatosplenomegaly is commonly found, symptomatic presentation with portal hypertension is rare. We report a child with liver cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices who was diagnosed with Gaucher's disease.

Cystic Disease of the Lungs

WVITH the increased use of radiography, pulmonary cystic disease is being recog-nised with sufficient frequency to warrant more than the passing mentioni given to this condition in textbooks. The condition is regarded by some as a medical curiosity, and because of this and the complications to which the condition frequently gives rise, a wrong diagnosis is often made. It is hoped that the cases...

Hydatid Disease of the Lungs

Penicillin in Suppurative Disease of the Lungs

Penicillin was first described in 1929 by Fleming,2 who suggested in his original report that it might prove to be a useful chemotherapeutic agent. It has more recently been developed through the investigations of Chain, Florey, and their collaborators'4' S to a point which has made it possible to undertake therapeutic trial in human infections.4 Among the considerable variety of bacterial spec...

Congenital Cystic Disease of the Lungs

his own. In the following 1^ years, Schenck (1937) reported that an additional 140 cases had been described and to these he has added another five cases of his own, making a total of 381 cases reported since Bartholinus recorded the first case in 1687. The great majority of these cases have been reported in the last few years. Now that diagnosis has become possible during life, some of these ca...