Recurrent Pneumonia in a 51-Year-Old Woman Due to Congenital Bronchoesophageal Fistula

Recurrent pneumonia in a 51-year-old woman due to congenital bronchoesophageal fistula.

Recurrent pneumonia in adults can be due to various etiologies. Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula may go undiagnosed in adult patients for many years. In cases of delayed recognition there is a long history of intermittent bouts of cough and choking after swallowing liquid, which may eventually present as recurrent pneumonia, lung abscess, or bronchiectasis. We report a patient with congenit...

A 51-year-old woman with dyspnea.

A 51-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with dyspnea, which began 4 days ago. She reports no chest pain, palpitations, hemoptysis, fevers, chills, weight loss, recent travel, immobility, or surgery. One week ago she noticed cramping in her right calf, but that has since resolved. Her history includes hypertension, hypothyroidism, and immune-mediated glomerulonephritis with prot...

Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula in the adult.

Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula is a rare clinical entity in adult patients. This anomaly may cause various symptoms such as respiratory infections, coughing bouts when eating or drinking, and even hemoptysis. We present a report on 9 patients with bronchoesophageal fistulas who were treated in our hospital during the last 30 years. One patient died of pulmonary complications before defini...

bronchoscopic extraction of a hydatid membrane in a 26-year-old woman with recurrent pneumonia

Necrotising pneumonia following influenza due to PVL-negative Staphylococcus aureus in a 64-year-old woman.

Roux S, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222542 Description A 64-year-old immunocompetent woman presented to our institution during the 2016– 2017 influenza A(H3N2) epidemic for cough and fever. She presented 10 days ago with an influenza syndrome, treated with ibuprofen 400 mg/ day for 7 days. As the fever continued, with blood-streaked sputum, amoxicillin with clavulanic acid wa...