PAST MEDICAL HISTORY:
1. Hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis.
2. Childhood asthma.
3. History of positive PPD more than 10 years ago, which was positive, at
that time with negative chest x-ray.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
What do you see?
The patient is a 59-year-old female with history of hepatitis C, currently on dual therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for last 2 months presented with complaint of cough.
PAST MEDICAL HISTORY:
1. Hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis.
2. Childhood asthma.
3. History of positive PPD more than 10 years ago, which was positive, at
that time with negative chest x-ray.
PAST MEDICAL HISTORY:
1. Hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis.
2. Childhood asthma.
3. History of positive PPD more than 10 years ago, which was positive, at
that time with negative chest x-ray.
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Yikes! I see a RUL cavity, and I think if I zoom in, I can spot the AFB swimming around in it. I hope you had a mask on while seeing this patient? What was the outcome?
I saw te cxr first, so I had on a mask before I went into the room. I can't say the same for the hepatologist who sent her here for "cough and pulmonary nodule".
Anyway, she was prescribed 4 drugs and 3 afb's were negative. Because MDR is somewhat of a concern here, we had to proceed with bronch (last case of day and lots of masks).
CT showed location was in posterior segment as well...
I'll update when result comes back to confirm the obvious...
in view of sustained afb negative results go in for a Mantoux test again and her immune status(hiv testing) and do consider a fungal etiology too so send in for appropriate examinations.Seeing cavities is a routine for us!the first differential is always ofcourse tuberculosis.
did she symptomaticaly improve once she was put on ATT?
There's some significant air trapping going on. Given the Asthma HX, what respiratory meds is the patient on? Are you seeing any dips in cardiac output?
did the pt receive prophylactic treatment for latent TB prior to starting interferon
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