| Case Series |
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in health-care workers with cystic fibrosis in Sydney
Yang Song, Lucy Rebecca Keatley, Peter Gordon Middleton
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.378
Colonization with MRSA has been noted in a previous study of adults with CF who work in healthcare. Given the increasing number of adults with CF interested in pursuing a health-care profession, we performed an audit which determined that there was no increased risk of colonization/infection with this organism in our clinic in Sydney. |
| Case Reports |
Shisha smoking as a possible cause of bilateral granulomatous lung lesions
Eun Ho Choe, Luke Sutherland, Christopher Hills, Jai-deep Sood
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.374
A 19 year old male who regularly smoked tobacco Shisha pipes presented with pleuritic chest pain, dyspnoea and cough. He was found to have multiple bilateral lung nodules on computed tomography. A biopsy of the lung revealed necrotizing granulomatous inflammation. There was spontaneous and complete clinical and radiographic resolution over the next 12 weeks. |
Delayed breast cancer relapse with pleural metastasis and malignant pleural effusion after long periods of disease-free survival
Antony Divananth Rawindraraj, Christine Yang Zhou, Vikas Pathak
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.375
Breast cancer relapse rates remain high within the first decade after initial treatment, after which the risk of relapse decreases. While common within the first year of breast cancer diagnosis, pleural metastasis with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) after 10-12 years of a disease-free period is rare. This case series presents two uncommon cases of delayed breast cancer relapses with pleural metastasis, which caused MPEs. |
Bronchobiliary fistula after radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma successfully treated by double drainage
Yi Chen Chang, Yu Min Lin
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.376
Chest computed tomography demonstrated right middle lobe consolidation with pleural effusion and right-side subphrenic fluid collection. Percutaneous transhepatic drainage of the subphrenic fluid and simultaneous cholangiography proved the bronchobiliary fistula. Percutaneous drainage combined with endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage successfully treated the patient. |
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presenting as a left-sided pleural effusion
Maple Huang, Reuben Sum, Sheetal Deshpande, Simon A Joosten
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.377
We present the case of a 42-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with a left-sided pleural effusion on plain radiograph and computed tomography. Further imaging of the abdomen indicated that this effusion was secondary to a splenic hilar abscess complicating a left-sided xanthogranulatous pyelonephritis. |
Hydrocarbon pneumonitis caused by the inhalation of wood preservative
Munechika Hara, Shin-ichiro Iwakami, Issei Sumiyoshi, Takashi Yoshida, Shinichi Sasaki, Kazuhisa Takahashi
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.379
This is a case of hydorocarbon pneumonitis due to inhaling a wood-preserving agent in an enclosed space. The diagnosis was established from the fluid resembling wood preservative collected using bronchoalveolar lavage. This case improved under intensive care, which included mechanical ventilation without administration of corticosteroids. |
