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Post Covid-19 Tuberculosis: An Emerging Threat Of Pandemic, Aqusa Zahid, Nousheen Iqbal, Sarosh Moeen, Muhammad Irfan
Post Covid-19 Tuberculosis: An Emerging Threat Of Pandemic, Aqusa Zahid, Nousheen Iqbal, Sarosh Moeen, Muhammad Irfan
Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) pandemic has hit the world hard. Millions of people have died due to the infection and several have suffered with what are now known as post COVID-19 squeal. Among these squeals one is immunosuppression which leaves patients prone to severe opportunistic infection. We here report a case of young female who was infected by COVID-19 and later developed cavitary pneumonia which upon investigation turned out to be due to mycobacterium tuberculosis. Through this report we aim to highlight the importance of high index of suspicion for infection like Mycobacterium tuberculosis after …
Pulmonary Hyalinising Granuloma: A Rare Pulmonary Disorder, Arsalan Rahatullah, Zeeshan Waheed, Javaid A Khan, Nasir-Ud-Din
Pulmonary Hyalinising Granuloma: A Rare Pulmonary Disorder, Arsalan Rahatullah, Zeeshan Waheed, Javaid A Khan, Nasir-Ud-Din
Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Pulmonary hyalinising granulomas are rare, noninfectious fibrosclerosing lesions of the lung which can mimic metastatic disease. It was first described in literature by Engleman et al in the year 1977. Its etiology is unknown but they may be caused by an exaggerated immune response. The patient typically presents with cough, chest pain. dyspnoea or haemoptysis in association with multiple bilateral parenchymal nodules. We report the case of a 20 years old male who presented with a 12-month history of worsening dry cough. His plain chest radiograph and subsequent CT scan revealed bilateral pulmonary nodules. A CT guided biopsy of the …
Broncho Alveolar Carcinoma (B.A.C.), Ahmed N. Abbasi, Muhammad Irfan, Syed Arsalan Raza
Broncho Alveolar Carcinoma (B.A.C.), Ahmed N. Abbasi, Muhammad Irfan, Syed Arsalan Raza
Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care
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