Tuberculosis complicated by ARDS

The management of uncontrolled pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by endobronchial tuberculosis.

Supplemental jet ventilation in a case of ARDS complicated by bronchopleural fistulae.

OBJECTIVE To present a case of unusual ventilatory strategy in a 17 year old girl with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) complicated by bilateral bronchopleural fistulae. METHODS The patient was ventilated with a combination of conventional pressure control ventilation (PCV) and high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) for 133 and 110 days, respectively. RESULTS Despite prolonged ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection complicated by Eales disease with peripheral neuropathy.

Eales disease, which is reported mainly in patients from the Indian subcontinent, is characterized by ophthalmic abnormalities that are sometimes followed by neurologic sequelae, and it is associated with previous Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We describe the first patient, to our knowledge, to receive a diagnosis of active tuberculosis and concurrent, severe neurological Eales disease,...

Tuberculosis complicated by diabetes mellitus at shanghai pulmonary hospital, china.

An association between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) has been implied for a long time. We previously reported that KDP type 1 diabetic rats and GK type 2 diabetic rats are highly susceptible to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. As a next step, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 2,141 patients with pulmonary TB newly diagnosed during the period from 2008 to 2009 to evalu...

MITRAL STENOSIS COMPLICATED BY RENAL ARTERY EMBOLISM

Six patients with mitral stenosis complicated by renal artery embolism studied prospectively are presented. In five patients there was unilateral and in one patient bilateral renal artery involvement. The diagnosis was confirmed by intravenous pyelography, retrograde pyelography, renal angiography, renal scan or a combination of these. All had atrial fibrillation, proteinuria and elevated ...