MISCELLANEOUS
Pulmonary puzzle
Bilateral nodular pulmonary infiltrates in an immunocompromised host
Pulmonary and Critical Division, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
Correspondence to:
Dr H A Ali, Pulmonary and Critical Division, Albert Einstein Medical Center, 5401 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA; alih@einstein.edu
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CLINICAL PRESENTATION
A 74-year-old man of Jamaican origin residing in the USA for 20 years presented to the hospital with progressively increasing shortness of breath and low-grade fever for 3 weeks. He had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 6 months prior to admission and started on chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone, with the last dose 12 days before presentation. In the hospital he was found to be hypoxic (82% saturation on room air) and required intubation and mechanical ventilation in the next 24 h. The clinical examination was unremarkable. His white blood cell count was 1100/mm3 with a normal differential. A chest radiograph and CT scan of the chest revealed diffuse bilateral nodular infiltrates (fig 1). He was started on antibiotics without improvement.
Figure 1 CT scan of the chest showing bilateral nodular infiltrates.
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Bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage was performed on the second day. The airways were found
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