Chylothorax: A Late Complication of Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex (MAC) Infection

Chylothorax is a rare cause of pleural effusion and occurs due to leakage of chyle into the pleural space. In most cases, it results from trauma, with malignancy accounting for most of the non-traumatic causes. Chylothorax resulting from immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), during tre...

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Autores principales: Jog, Abhishrut, Schmidt, Patrik, Hallal, Priscilla L, Novitch, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
HIV/AIDS
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10339148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456383
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40347
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Sumario:Chylothorax is a rare cause of pleural effusion and occurs due to leakage of chyle into the pleural space. In most cases, it results from trauma, with malignancy accounting for most of the non-traumatic causes. Chylothorax resulting from immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), during treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection, is an extremely infrequent cause of chylothorax, with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. 

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