Bronchopleural and pleurocutaneous fistula in HIV patient with pulmonary tuberculosis

We present a 37-year-old man intravenous drug user, with HIV/HCV/HBV co-infection, lymph node tuberculosis 10 years before (completed 12 months of treatment), and left lobar pneumonia 4 years earlier complicated by empyema (treated with left lower lobectomy with a persistent bronchopleural fistula)...

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Autores principales: Duarte-Ribeiro, Filipa, Dias, Cátia, Mota, Margarida
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.06.009
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Sumario:We present a 37-year-old man intravenous drug user, with HIV/HCV/HBV co-infection, lymph node tuberculosis 10 years before (completed 12 months of treatment), and left lobar pneumonia 4 years earlier complicated by empyema (treated with left lower lobectomy with a persistent bronchopleural fistula) who was admitted to the emergency department with caseous-purulent drainage and exteriorization of air from an orifice in the chest wall. Acid-fast bacilli were identified in this drainage. A pleurocutaneous fistula was evident on the chest computed tomography scan. He was admitted to the Infectious Diseases Unit and started on antituberculous therapy with a favorable outcome.

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