Targeting B Lymphocytes in Progressive Fibrosing Mediastinitis

Focal fibrosing mediastinitis.

Pulmonary Hypertension Complicating Fibrosing Mediastinitis

Fibrosing mediastinitis is caused by a proliferation of fibrous tissue in the mediastinum with encasement of mediastinal viscera and compression of mediastinal bronchovascular structures. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a severe complication of fibrosing mediastinitis caused by extrinsic compression of the pulmonary arteries and/or veins.We have conducted a retrospective observational study revi...

Endobronchial findings of fibrosing mediastinitis.

Fibrosing mediastinitis is underdiagnosed because of the nonspecific character of the presenting symptoms. The endobronchial findings obtained via flexible bronchoscopy are not defined in the literature. We describe 3 cases of fibrosing mediastinitis, most likely caused by histoplasmosis. All 3 patients presented with hemoptysis and were found to have tracheobronchial concentric narrowing, seve...

Pulmonary vascular occlusion and fibrosing mediastinitis.

Patients with fibrosing mediastinitis causing obstruction of pulmonary veins and arteries may present with many of the historic, physical, and laboratory findings of patients with pulmonary hypertension due to chronic thrombotic obstruction of major pulmonary arteries. Because the latter is subject to surgical correction, and the former is not, it is important to differentiate between the two a...

Octreotide for Chylothorax Due to Fibrosing Mediastinitis

51 Received June 11, 2010; revision accepted for publication August 9, 2010. doi: 10.1620/tjem.222.51 Correspondence: Young Hak Kim, M.D., Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawaracho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] Octreotide, a Somatostatin Analogue, in the Treatment of Chylothorax Associated with Idi...