A Rare Bug and Recurrent Bleed

Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with...

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Autores principales: Sarda, Yashendu, Acharya, Vishak K., Sharma, Deepthi, Chaithra, G. V., Kamath, Madhav M., Rai, Santosh P. V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194178
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_137_20
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author Sarda, Yashendu
Acharya, Vishak K.
Sharma, Deepthi
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Kamath, Madhav M.
Rai, Santosh P. V.
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description Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with recurrent hemoptysis and was diagnosed to have Actinomycosis after multiple readmissions.
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spelling pubmed-82130832021-06-29 A Rare Bug and Recurrent Bleed Sarda, Yashendu Acharya, Vishak K. Sharma, Deepthi Chaithra, G. V. Kamath, Madhav M. Rai, Santosh P. V. J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with recurrent hemoptysis and was diagnosed to have Actinomycosis after multiple readmissions. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8213083/ /pubmed/34194178 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_137_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Global Infectious Diseases https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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