Ventilator-dependent pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Nocardiosis is a rare infectious disease entity that mostly affects the lungs, brain, or skin of immunocompromised individuals. Recent reports of pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as the only risk factor suggest a possible association between no...

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Autores principales: Pak, Stella, Mansour, Tarek, Yatsynovich, Yan, Kobalka, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29319037
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_170_17
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author Pak, Stella
Mansour, Tarek
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Kobalka, Andrew
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description Nocardiosis is a rare infectious disease entity that mostly affects the lungs, brain, or skin of immunocompromised individuals. Recent reports of pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as the only risk factor suggest a possible association between nocardiosis and COPD. Herein, we present a case of ventilator-dependent PN in a patient with a moderate degree of COPD. A high level of suspicion for PN should be maintained when encountered with COPD patients complaining of symptoms of pneumonia and excessive thirst.
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spelling pubmed-57608712018-02-07 Ventilator-dependent pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Pak, Stella Mansour, Tarek Yatsynovich, Yan Kobalka, Andrew Lung India Case Report Nocardiosis is a rare infectious disease entity that mostly affects the lungs, brain, or skin of immunocompromised individuals. Recent reports of pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as the only risk factor suggest a possible association between nocardiosis and COPD. Herein, we present a case of ventilator-dependent PN in a patient with a moderate degree of COPD. A high level of suspicion for PN should be maintained when encountered with COPD patients complaining of symptoms of pneumonia and excessive thirst. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5760871/ /pubmed/29319037 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_170_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Chest Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Ventilator-dependent pulmonary nocardiosis in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760871/
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