Successful Treatment with Pneumonectomy for Pulmonary Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection
| Autor: | Emiko Kusano, Shinji Sakaguchi, Daisuke Sato, Fumiaki Ishida, Keigo Takagi, Susumu Sakamoto, Yujiro Takai, Sakae Homma, Minaho Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Isobe, Kazutoshi Shibuya, Kyoko Gocho, Motohide Iwata, Keishi Sugino, Go Sano, Kyohei Kaburaki, Taito Miyazaki, Yoko Muramatsu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Antibiotics Mycobacterium Infections Nontuberculous Mycobacterium abscessus Diagnosis Differential Pneumonectomy Pulmonary tuberculosis Entire right lung Internal Medicine medicine Humans Tuberculosis Pulmonary Lung biology business.industry Nontuberculous Mycobacteria General Medicine Middle Aged bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure bacteria Sputum Female Nontuberculous mycobacteria medicine.symptom business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Internal Medicine. 48:459-463 |
| ISSN: | 1349-7235 0918-2918 |
| DOI: | 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1763 |
| Popis: | We report a case of pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus (M. abscessus) infection with destructive growth in the entire right lung. The patient was 56-year-old woman who had had pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 40 and had been diagnosed as having pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infection 4 years prior to admission at our hospital. Although various antibiotics were administered, persistent fever, hemoptysis and weight loss developed. After undergoing a right pneumonectomy, her clinical symptoms improved dramatically and sputum excretions of M. abscessus ceased. No relapse of the disease has been observed in the 2 years since surgery. Pneumonectomy was very effective for refractory M. abscessus infection that destroyed the right lung. |
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