Case reports

A case report provides important and detailed information about an individual, which is often lost in larger studies. Accurate recounting of clinical experience continues to be essential to the progress of medicine.

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Massive pleural effusion presented with a very rare multitude of complication Pankaj Maheshwari (Indore, India)
High-flow nasal cannula induced tension pneumocephalus Youjin Chang (Cheongju, South Korea)
What caused the massive haemoptysis in a 23-year male? Min Song (Changsha, China)
An unexpected cause of sleep apnea in a child Christy Shuk-kuen Chau (Hong Kong, China)
Nocturnal noisy breathing in a patient with parkinsonism, a potentially lethal combination Roman Kind (Zurich, Switzerland)
A rare case of type 3 respiratory failure Ashish Kumar Prakash (Gurgaon, India)
Endobronchial fungal infection caused by candida albicans with main bronchus obstruction Taeyun Kim (Busan, South Korea)
Pulmonary cavity, lymphadenectasis and recurrent systemic infection Zhengtu Li (Guangzhou, China)
Immunocompetent young man with diffuse pulmonary infiltrates Joao Pedro Steinhauser Motta (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
A Syrian refugee with a lesion in the left lung Markus Fally (Roskilde, Denmark)
A crypt-ic clue Diana Slim (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Mining for an answer Aoife Lillis (Firmley, United Kingdom)
A rare case of thrombocytopenia and pericaridal effusion Y. Bezalel (Petach tikva, Israel)
TB or not TB... that is the question H. Gowai (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
A 9 month-old boy presenting with choking episodes C. Poulter (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
A breathless teenager C. Cochrane (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Catheter-interventional closure of a bronchopleural fistula following pneumonia W. Baden (Tübingen, Germany)
Rituximab therapy in a patient with steroid-refractory bird fancier's lung E. Ceci Bonello (Naxxar, Malta)
Alemtuzumab-induced alveolar hemorrhage in relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis: learning from adversity P. Mari (Roma (RM), Italy)
A rare and misleading cause of lung nodules with pulmonary embolism F. Trescos (MARSEILLE, France)
IgG4-related disease pleural and retroperitoneal fibrosis M. Pinto Mendes (Penafiel, Portugal)
A case of a woman and her breathtaking jewellery D. Stylemans (Meldert (Aalst), Belgium)
The relationship between hyperresponsiveness and laryngeal obstruction J. Haines (Wilmslow (Cheshire), United Kingdom)
Case series of welders with unexplained emphysema J. Hoyle (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Severe pulmonara hemorrhage S. Keymel (Dusseldorf, Germany)
A rare tracheobronchial amyloidosis F. Zengin (Istanbul, Turkey)
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis and idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis L. Walsh (Cork (Co. Cork), Ireland)
A boy with an interesting ChILD Lore van Bruwaene (Pretoria, South Africa)
A child with foreign body in bronchus: misdiagnosed as asthma Nagendra Chaudhary (Bhairahawa, Nepal)
An unusual cause of breathlessness in a young tri-athlete Louise Selby (London, United Kingdom)
Congenital pulmonary airway malformations: An important lesson to us all Catriona Middleton (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Bullous emphysema in adolescent: is congenital malformation or outcome of bronchopulmonary dysplasia? Svetlana Ilchenko (Dnepr, Ukraine)
A mysterious cause of chronic cough George Fereos (London, United Kingdom)
Strings of fury Irene Rosellen Tan (Manila, Philippines)
Angioinvasive rhinocerebral and pulmonary mucormycosis Aleksandra Barac (Belgrade, Serbia)
A case of pulmonary tuberculosis development after receiving immune check point inhibitor in an advanced non-small cell lung cancer Taeyun Kim (Busan, South Korea)
Alk-rearranged adenocarcinoma arising in lung lymphangioleiomyomatosis of a patient with tuberous sclerosis complex Federica Pezzuto (Padova, Italy)
An astonishing case of diffuse micronodular pneumopathy Joao Pedro Steinhauser Motta (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
The right generation EGFR TKI in first line: nothing less but a lifesaver! Kim De Muynck (Brussels, Belgium)
Unusual presentation of pulmonary nocardiosis as pyopneumothorax in a patient under corticotherapy André Fabiano (Lisbon, Portugal)
Pulmonary Toxocariasis: from pathological suspicion to serological confirmation - a long way for diagnosis Ruxandra-Mioara Rajnoveanu (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
A rare and a common disease accompanying each other in a young man’s lungs Göksel Altinisik (Denizli, Turkey)
COPA – Syndrome: an underestimated disease? Rosa-Marie Apel (Hannover, Germany)
An unusual case of diffuse pulmonary meningotheliomatosis accompanying with cystic lung disease Nimet Aksel (Izmir, Turkey)
Why is it not resolving? Jelle Rindert Miedema (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Spontaneous mediastinal hematoma with bilateral hemothorax due to hypertrophied bronchial arteries and right inferior phrenic artery S. Guo (Chongqing (Chongqing), China)
Thoracic splenosis presented with hemoptysis A. Photiades (Athens, Greece)
Hughes Stovin vasculitis: regression of pulmonary aneurisms and sustained remission with anti-TNF treatment S. Ghirardo (Trieste, Italy)
Pulmonary vein stenosis mimicking interstitial lung disease A. Fonseca Carriço (Guarda, Portugal)
Early histological changes of pulmonary arterial hypertension disclosed by invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing Y. Bhatti (London, United Kingdom)
Undiagnosed fever in a TB contact patient: an unusual cause H. Narang (Delhi, India)
Rifampicin related erythroderma in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis with successful desensitisation: A case report and review of literature N. Huan (Kajang, Malaysia)
A rare case of bone tuberculosis involving the sternum S. Wickramasinghe (Kadawath, Sri Lanka)
A rare presentation of pulmonary aspergillosis: Bronchial stump aspergillosis Ö. Can Bostan (Ankara, Turkey)
A case of atypical pulmonary mycobacteriosis in an elderly patient caused by rifabutin resistant Mycobacterium celatum M. Demmin (Bad Urach, Germany)
Invading as you were inattentive – an unexpected culprit of pulmonary abscess Xavier Atencio (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)
Asthma and multiple infiltrates Andrea Portacci (Taranto, Italy)
Non resolving pneumonia Bruno de Aguiar Mendes (Lisbon, Portugal)
An asmathic patient with headache? Ezequiel Baran (La Plata. Argentina)
A Young Lady with Stridor – A rare case presentation Sugeesha Wickramasinghe (Kadawath, Sri Lanka)
Functional and symptomatic improvement of obstructive impairment by an additional treatment to inhaled agents Masaki Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan)
Disseminated Talaromyces marneffei and Mycobacterium avium coinfection accompanied sweet syndrome in a patient with anti-interferon-gamma autoantibody Yuping Li (WenZhou, China)
Goodpasture syndrome after H1N1 influenza pneumonia Deniz Akçayöz (Ankara, Turkey)
Massive haemoptysis in a patient with melioidosis Nai Chien Huan (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia)
Pulmonary artery sarcoma diagnosed by endovascular catheter-guided biopsy and successfully treated by surgery in the long term Hideo Tsubata (Kyoto, Japan)
Pulmonary hypertension as the first manifestation in a patient with granulomatosis with polyangiitis Cristina Sabater Abad (Valencia, Spain)
Leptospirosis: An Unlikely Cause of Pulmonary Haemorrhage? Hon Lin Wu (Preston, United Kingdom)
The benefit of servo ventilation in Eisenmenger syndrome S. Moura Cabral (Matosinhos, Portugal)
Late-onset, diagnosed in a 60 year-old patient with insidious course, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome J. Terada (Chiba City, Japan)
Can hemoptysis be the presenting symptom of Obstructive Sleep Apnea? F. Viana Machado (Porto, Portugal)
Severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and orthognathic surgery: a case of success M. Correia Pereira (Mirandela, Portugal)
A case of obstructive sleep apnea with brady-tachy syndrome S. Okabe (Tokyo, Japan)
Primary pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma in a young patient C. Pessoa De Matos Cabo (Coimbra, Portugal)
Mediastinal mass and Graves Disease - when is biopsy needed? M. Matias Leitão (Coimbra, Portugal)
Rapid and sustained airway control in metastatic malignant melanoma S. Cullivan (Cavan, Ireland)
A rare choroidal metastasis in ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that responds to Crizotinib M. Drösslerová (Opava 5, Czech Republic)
Metastasis masquerading as disseminated TB D. Raj (Trichy, India)
Successful Treatment of Tracheal Stenosis with Cryospray Therapy R. Alalawi (Phoenix, United States of America)
Diaphragmatic flutter in a male adolescent - A very rare case report S. Yuvarajan (PONDICHERRY (Tamil Nadu), India)
Kocuria species: an emerging bacterial infection in critical ill patients R. Fittipaldi Palazzo (Rio De Janeiro (RJ), Brazil)
Cerebral and spinal air embolism and myocardial infarction following diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy A. Thelle (Bergen, Norway)
Successful multimodality managements of severe pulmonary artery hypertension in pregnancy with VA-ECMO and atrial septostomy using stent V. Phoophiboon (bangkok, Thailand)
A 38-year-old women with dyspnea and cyanotic lips S. Gratsiaskaya, V. Gramovich, T. Martynyuk (Moscow, Russia)
A 38-years old female patient with recurrent attacks of coughing of blood M. Elhusseiny Abolmagd, Amro A. Moawad, D. Abdalla (Mansoura, Egypt)
A 62-year-old women with insomnia M. Pereira, C. Pires, H. Santiago, M. Matos (Coimbra, Portugal)
A 32-year-old women with increasing shortness of breath M. Pereira, M. Matos (Coimbra, Portugal)
A 58-year-old Caucasian patient with dyspnea on exertion R.J. Bernardo, H. Jaliawala, H. Bhardwaj, H. Youness (Oklahoma City, USA)
A 55-year-old man with resting and exertional dyspnea I. Choi (Busan, Rep. of Korea)
A 29-year-old woman with polyarthritis and fever J. Huertas, P. Diaz, F. Lopez Gonzalez, T. Valverde, P. Clara (Gijon, Spain)
A 34-year-old male smoker with exertional dyspnoea M. O'Callaghan, A. Fabre, J. McCann, M. Keane, A. McCarthy, T. McDonnell (Dublin, Ireland)
A young woman with an asymptomatic haemorrhagic pleural effusion V.R. Bataduwaarachchi, Jayani Jayawardhana, Champa Weerasinghe, Aflah Sadikeen, R. Constantine, K. Gunasekara (Colombo, Sri lanka)
A 48-year-old male patient with increasing shortness of breath F. Funke, K. Darwiche, C. Aigner, C. Taube (Essen, Germany)
A 17-year-old boy with severe respiratory failure, pulmonary infection and myocarditis C. Mannini, N. Nassi (Florence, Italy)
A 2-month-old boy with suspected aspiration syndrome Tolstova E.M., Zaitseva N.S., Zaytseva O.V., Mezentseva D.A., Efimova E.V., Isayeva E.K., Stroganov I.A., Abaseeva T.Yu., Radimova E.R., Ionova E.A. (Moscow, Russia)
Respiratory support in the child with neuromuscular disease S. Nethercott, R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
A 46-year-old woman with recurrent mild hemoptysis V. Sharma, A. Bali (Mangalore, India)
A 32-year-old female with high grade fever V. Sharma, C. Babu (Mangalore, India)
A 55-year-old woman with sided dull aching chest pain V. Sharma, B. Sangolli (Mangalore, India)
A 51-year-old woman with nausea and occasional vomiting V. Sharma (Mangalore, India), V. Viswambhar (Tamilnadu, India)
Progressive dyspnea with chronic cough in a smoker V. Sharma, I. Sekh, D. Harsha, A. Bhat (Mangalore, India)
A 34 year old male suspected to be a case of drug resistant tuberculosis S. Paul, A. Pal (Kolkata, India)
80 year old male with hoarseness of voice and stridor V. Sharma (Mangalore, India), V. Viswambhar (Tamilnadu,India), B. Sangolli (Mangalore, India)
22-year-old man with fever, cough and dyspnoea A. Bhattacharya, M. Ghosh, P. Ray, S. Mukherjee (Kolkata, India)
26 year old female presenting with miliary shadows on a chest X-ray R. Vadala, L. Fernandes, A.M. Mesquita (Gurgaon, India)
30 year old female with 7-year history of haemoptysis and breathlessness S.R. Goyal (Chennai, India)
Acute breathlessness in lung cancer A. Aujayeb, J. Miller, I. Matthews (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) Breathe 2014; 10: 323-328
A rare pulmonary complication of myeloma therapy J. Schrieber, A. Xu-Holland, R. Walker, B. Brockway (Dunedin, New Zealand) Breathe 2014; 10: 243-248
A surgical case of haemothorax A. Aujayeb, A. Ward (Newcastle, United Kingdom) Breathe 2014; 10: 61-66
A 45 year old farmer with cough and chest pain S. Paul, S. Kundu (Kolkata, India)
Blood in a chest drain A. Aujayeb, A. Taylor, S. Doe, S. Worthy (Newcastle, United Kingdom) Breathe 2013; 9: 489-494
An adolescent with chest pain G. Vleeshouwers, R. Sprooten, G. Rohde (Maastricht, The Netherlands) Breathe 2013; 9: 309-316
A 31 year old woman with chronic cough D. Harsha, A. Bhat, K. Ganesh, V. Sharma (Mangalore, India)
A 38 year old farmer with stridor V. Kiran, P. Anandan, S. George, P. James (Kozhikode, India)
Misunderstanding the arterial blood oxygen saturation A. Smargiassi, M. Andreani, M. Montebelli, R. Pistelli (Rome, Italy) Breathe 2013; 9: 225-230
A 62 year old COPD patient with headache and somnolence V. Sharma, N. Anupama, V. Viswambhar, D. Harsha, S. Rahul, J. Basavaraj (Mangalore, India)
Chronic cough in a 85 year old female V. Sharma, N. Anupama, D. Harsha, S. Rahul, J. Basavaraj (Mangalore, India)
A 50 year-old woman with syncope H. Shahzad, A. Bin Sarwar Zubairi (Karachi, Pakistan) Breathe 2012; 9: 69-73
A 69 year old male with exertional dyspnea since 2 months V. Sharma, N. Anupama, D. Harsha, V. Viswambhar, M. Mathews (Mangalore, India)
A 67 year old male with progressive dysphagia V. Sharma, N. Anupama, D. Harsha, V. Viswambhar, M. Mathews (Mangalore, India)
Pneumomediastinum and pneumorrhachis: a lot of air about nothing? A Aujayeb, S. Doe, S. Worthy (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) Breathe 2012; 8: 331-334
Black lungs and tuberculosis A Aujayeb, S. Worthy, C. Stenton (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) Breathe 2012; 8: 247-251
A male baby born at 35 weeks gestation R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom), A. Shahnaz (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
A snoring child R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom), N. Petrova (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Emphysema and bronchiectasis in a 48-year-old male M.L. Gupta, J. Sinha, C. Bhandari, S. Singh (Jaipur, India) Breathe 2011; 8: 169-172
44 year old male with progressive left-sided chest pain M. de Wit (Richmond, United States of America)
A 6-year-old boy with recurrent pneumonia E. Mantzouranis (Crete, Greece)
A 62 years old obese man with hypersomnia N. Dursunoglu (Denizli, Turkey)
18-year-old male with fever and dyspnea L. Hendriks, E. van Haren (Heerlen, Netherlands)
A 75-year-old man with breathlessness and pleuritic chest pain S. Mukherjee (Stafford, United Kingdom)
A 63 year old male with hypercapnic respiratory failure and haemoptysis N. Dursunoglu (Denizli, Turkey)
A 59-year-old female with cough and left-sided chest pain T. Harada (Sapporo, Japan)
32 year-old female patient E. Duman (Kocaeli, Turkey)
An infant with congenital diaphragmatic hernia R. Aniapravan (Cambridge, United Kingdom), R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Pulmonary decline in a CF patient M. Stahl (Heidelberg, Germany)
54 year old man with fever and rapidly progressive dyspnoea T. Rothe (Davos, Switzerland)
A 36 year old man with HIV infection and sudden onset of fever T. Rothe (Davos, Switzerland)
A 27 year old male coughing and loosing weight T. Rothe (Davos, Switzerland)
A 32 years old nurse with non-controlled asthma T. Rothe (Davos, Switzerland)
A 31 year old woman with chronic productive cough T. Rothe (Davos, Switzerland)
Difficult extubation R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom), R. Aniapravan (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
A 14 year old boy from Sri Lanka with a thoracal protrusion T. Frischer (Vienna, Austria)
A difficult airway R. Ross Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom), R. Aniapravan (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
15-year-old girl with a history of recurrent haemoptysis A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
6-month-old boy with prominent inspiratory breath sound at agitation A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
1-year-old girl with fever and cough since 2 days A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
16-year-old boy with chronic cough, recurrent dyspnoea and wheezing A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
12-year-old girl with exercise-induced dyspnoea A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
Newborn boy with respiratory distress A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
13-year-old girl with exercise-induced dyspnoea and hoarseness A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), M. Moehrenschlager (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
2-year-old girl with chronic cough A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
9-year-old boy with dyspnoea, fatigue and weight loss A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
3-month-old boy with prominent breath sound since the 3rd week of life A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
3-month-old boy with hoarse breath sound, worsening during crying and respiratory infections A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
5-month-old boy with barky cough and fever A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
3-year-old girl with recurrent respiratory infections, wheezing and dyspnoea A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
8-year-old boy with chronic cough, recurrent wheezing and rhinorrhea A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
36-month-old boy with severe wheeze J. Wildhaber (Fribourg, Switzerland)
8-month-old boy with stridor J. Wildhaber (Fribourg, Switzerland)
5-year-old boy with chronic cough and rhinorrhea A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)
3-year-old boy with cough and intermittent wheezing A. Jung (Davos, Switzerland), C. Bütikofer (Zürich, Switzerland)