TOPIC: Chest Infections TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Clozapine is a second-generation antipsychotic used for schizophrenia and treatment-resistant bipolar disorder. Some of its known side effects include agranulocytosis, seizures, myocarditis. However, clozapine-induced aspiration pneumonia not well known. We present case 70-year-old male with schizoaffective disord...

Endobronchial lipoma is a rare neoplasm of the tracheobronchial tree and it may cause irreversible pulmonary damage due to recurrent pneumonia. Rarely, it may mimic bronchial asthma. We present a 53-year-old woman with an endobronchial lipoma, which had been treated as a bronchial asthma for four years. She also had developed recurrent pneumonia three times.

Recurrent pneumonia was defined as two episodes of per year or three at any time life. The causes recurrent are multifactorial. Additional diagnostic should be considered because most cases associated with an underlying illness. We reported a case 3 months old malnourished male patient. Chest radiograph show infiltrate in both lung history hospitalized for one month before admission. occurs 7.7...

Job’s syndrome, a subset of the Hyper-immunoglobulin E (IgE) recurrent Infection Syndrome (HIES), is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder characterized by a classic clinical triad of recurrent staphylococcal abscesses, recurrent cyst-forming pneumonia, and markedly elevated serum IgE level. To date, slightly more than 200 cases have been published worldwide. Here we review HIES and report o...

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of recurrent episodes of pneumonia in patients referred to the pulmonology outpatient unit at "Serviço de Pneumologia Pediatrica" of the Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira/UFRJ and to review the recurrent concept in accordance to medical references currently available. METHODS: Data were obtained by reviewing all docum...

We describe two otherwise healthy subjects with many years sequelae due to lung aspiration. In both, diagnosis was delayed due to lack of history of aspiration. Recurrent pneumonia in the same segment in one, and migratory pneumonia in the other, could have suggested the diagnosis. Review of the literature shows that occult foreign body aspiration poses difficulties in diagnosis and that often ...