Pneumonic aspergillosis complicating healed tuberculosis.

Pneumonic aspergillosis complicating healed tuberculosis.

Mediastinal Emphysema Complicating a Pneumonic Condition

Necrotising aspergillosis complicating fulminating viral pneumonia.

After a holiday in Devon in September 1977, a previously fit 14-year-old schoolgirl developed headaches, myalgia, sore throat, and fever. She was given a seven-day course of tetracycline, followed by four days on magnapen, without any improvement. Over the 24 hours before admission to hospital she developed progressive dyspnoea and severe respiratory distress. On examination she was febrile (39...

Eosinophilic Pleural Effusion Complicating Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is primarily a disease of patients with cystic fibrosis or asthma, who typically present with bronchial obstruction, fever, malaise, and expectoration of mucus plugs. We report a case of a young man with a history of asthma who presented with cough, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and was found to have lobar atelectasis and an eosinophilic, empyema...

Eosinophilic Pleural Effusion Complicating Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is primarily a disease of patients with cystic fibrosis or asthma, who typically present with bronchial obstruction, fever, malaise, and expectoration of mucus plugs. We report a case of a young man with a history of asthma who presented with cough, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and was found to have lobar atelectasis and an eosinophilic, empyema...