background: hydatid disease is a major world health problem and pulmonary hydatidosis is a widespread disease. it is presented with different clinical manifestations. in order to determine the most clinical manifestation, diagnostic methods and clinical outcome in our patients, we conducted this study. methods : forty-nine patients with pulmonary hydatid cysts who were admitted to our hospital ...

A 26-yr-old female was referred to the Chest Dept of the Pamukkale University Medical School, Turkey, for the investigation of coughing and abnormal chest roentgenogram. She suffered flu 3 weeks prior to this and her coughing was persisting since then. She denied fever, phlegm, dyspnoea, wheeze, night sweats and haemoptysis. Before a splenectomy at aged 18 yrs, blood transfusions had been appli...

Solitary plasmacytoma of the bone, especially of a single rib, is a rare disease. We present the case of a 44-year-old Han Chinese man who was diagnosed with a solitary plasmacytoma of the bone located in the right sixth rib. The patient presented with a 4-year history of continuous pain in the right chest area and moderate fever lasting 7 days. A chest roentgenogram showed a solitary expanding...

OBJECTIVE To derive and validate a clinical rule for predicting pneumonic infiltrates in adult patients with acute respiratory illness. DESIGN Prevalence studies in three settings. SETTING Emergency departments of the University of Illinois Hospital at Chicago, the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha, and the Medical College of Virginia at Richmond. PATIENTS Symptoms, signs, co...

chospasm and edema of the bronchial wall. The problem of plugs is compounded by the invariably present tachypnea, resulting in respiratory loss of fluids. Dehydration produces tenacious, inspissated plugs, which are difficult to remove via the cough mechanism. Messer et al,1° in a large autopsy series, reported a 97 percent incidence of abnormal bronchial contents (mucous, purulent exudate, or ...

J ]jaIformations of the endomyocardiurn of the left heart are far less common than those affecting the valves or septa; yet they are encountered often enough to constitute a challenge to the physician in diagnosis and proper management. They are more often found in infants than in children or adults. Murmurs are absent or inconspicuous. The condition is apt to be recognized when an infant sudde...

An eighty-five-year-old female lost consciousness after drinking hot water, following coughing. As she was found to be in a deep coma with bradypnea, she was transported to our Level 1 emergency and critical care center. She had hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dementia, cataracts, had undergone gastrectomy for gastric ulcers, cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis and had required admission for po...