Lymphocytic Pleural Effusion in Acute Melioidosis
| Autor: | Chang-Hung Chen, Bruno Man-Hon Cheung, Kuo-Mou Chung, Deng-Wei Chou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Melioidosis Tuberculosis Burkholderia pseudomallei medicine.drug_class Pleural effusion medicine.medical_treatment Antibiotics Taiwan Thoracentesis Lymphocytosis lymphocyte Malignancy Gastroenterology Disease Outbreaks Disasters pleural effusion Internal medicine Medicine Humans Aged Medicine(all) lcsh:R5-920 biology business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Acute Disease Female melioidosis Differential diagnosis business lcsh:Medicine (General) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, Vol 106, Iss 10, Pp 874-877 (2007) |
| ISSN: | 0929-6646 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0929-6646(08)60055-8 |
| Popis: | An endemic outbreak of melioidosis developed in southern Taiwan following a flood caused by a typhoon in July 2005. A total of 27 patients were diagnosed with the acute and indigenous form of pulmonary melioidosis. Parapneumonic pleural effusions were noted on chest X-rays in six patients. Thoracentesis was done in three patients and all revealed lymphocyte predominance in differential cell count. Burkholderia pseudomallei was isolated in the pleural effusion in one of them. All three patients survived after antibiotic treatment. Lymphocytic pleural effusion is generally seen in tuberculosis or malignancy. However, our findings suggest that melioidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lymphocytic pleural effusion. |
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