Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report

BACKGROUND: Pleural involvement by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), especially NTM empyema in the immunocompetent patient without pulmonary diseases is a rare disease. It is difficult to diagnose with only a few cases of immunodeficient patients in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a...

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Autores principales: Yu, Fengjiao, Li, Yongxia, Luo, Jing, Chen, Xingru, Jiang, Yu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-023-02494-5
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author Yu, Fengjiao
Li, Yongxia
Luo, Jing
Chen, Xingru
Jiang, Yu
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Li, Yongxia
Luo, Jing
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Jiang, Yu
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description BACKGROUND: Pleural involvement by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), especially NTM empyema in the immunocompetent patient without pulmonary diseases is a rare disease. It is difficult to diagnose with only a few cases of immunodeficient patients in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 63-year-old male with empyema due to NTM and highlight the challenges of diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection should be considered as a cause of pleuritis or empyema without pulmonary disease, however it is a real diagnostic dilemma.
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spelling pubmed-102782472023-06-20 Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report Yu, Fengjiao Li, Yongxia Luo, Jing Chen, Xingru Jiang, Yu BMC Pulm Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Pleural involvement by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), especially NTM empyema in the immunocompetent patient without pulmonary diseases is a rare disease. It is difficult to diagnose with only a few cases of immunodeficient patients in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 63-year-old male with empyema due to NTM and highlight the challenges of diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection should be considered as a cause of pleuritis or empyema without pulmonary disease, however it is a real diagnostic dilemma. BioMed Central 2023-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10278247/ /pubmed/37337175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-023-02494-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Case Report
Yu, Fengjiao
Li, Yongxia
Luo, Jing
Chen, Xingru
Jiang, Yu
Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title_full Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title_fullStr Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title_short Thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
title_sort thoracic empyema due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in an immunocompetent patient without pulmonary disease: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-023-02494-5
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