These CT images are from an older Caucasian woman infected with a nontuberculous mycobacterium. She has a chronic cough but no known chronic lung disease. She tries to hide her cough.
Challenge: What syndrome is this?
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
My Fair Lady
My goal for the last handful of cases on this blog is to actually post a case a day; it always bothered me a little to have a blog titled "Case of the Day" that was only running twice or thrice weekly posts. This may not actually happen, but I'm trying to go out with a bang.
These CT images are from an older Caucasian woman infected with a nontuberculous mycobacterium. She has a chronic cough but no known chronic lung disease. She tries to hide her cough.
Challenge: What syndrome is this?
Image shown under Fair Use.
These CT images are from an older Caucasian woman infected with a nontuberculous mycobacterium. She has a chronic cough but no known chronic lung disease. She tries to hide her cough.
Challenge: What syndrome is this?
Image shown under Fair Use.
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My Fair Lady
This is Lady Windermere’s syndrome, characterized by focal bronchiectasis in both the right middle lobe and lingula. This occurs as the patient tries to suppress a chronic cough which leads to inability to clear secretions. As a result, the patient develops a nontuberculous mycobacterial infection like MAC. The name of the syndrome comes from an Oscar Wilde play “Lady Windermere’s Fan”
Sources: openi.nlm.nih.gov; cid.oxfordjournals.org.
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