Recurrent flu-like illness with migrating pulmonary infiltrates of unknown aetiology

Undetectable HDL Cholesterol in a Patient with Flu-Like Illness.

An 85-year-old man presented to his family physician with complaints of generalized weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, excessive sleeping, and mild laryngitis. He reported that his temperature taken orally at home that morning was 102.6 °F. These symptoms arose during the previous week, before which he had been healthy, exercising vigorously every day. His past medical history included type 2...

Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia

JI etracycline continues to be one of the most frequently used antibiotics. It is often prescribed for the treatment of acute bronchitis, urinary tract infections and refractory facial acne. Longstanding familiarity with the drug has established its relative safety when administered orally, even for prolonged periods of time, as in the treatment of acne.1 Current reviews have summarized the adv...

Eosinophilia with pulmonary infiltrates

Lymphoma is hard to be diagnosed without an exact pathologic evidence. Eosinophilia might be one of its signs. However, some other clinical characteristics such as special contact history, pulmonary infiltrates, and the effectiveness of prednisone treatment could mislead our diagnosis. Here we report a case of lymphoma accompanied with pulmonary infiltrates and clinical feature of eosinophilia.

Hereditary Amyloidosis with Recurrent Lung Infiltrates

BACKGROUND Amyloidosis is a protein conformational disorder characterized by extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils in extracellular tissue. Lung involvement is most commonly caused by secondary AL amyloidosis. The familial autosomal-dominant senile transthyretin (ATTR) disease manifests mainly as polyneuropathy and restrictive cardiomyopathy denoting the name familial amyloidotic polyneur...

Pandemic flu. Clinical management of patients with an influenza-like illness during an influenza pandemic.