Severe Cavitary, Fistulating Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Complex Disease in an Immunocompetent Host

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Dec 1;192(11):1387-8. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201506-1151IM.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Azithromycin / therapeutic use
  • Bronchial Fistula / diagnostic imaging
  • Bronchial Fistula / microbiology*
  • Bronchial Fistula / therapy
  • Cysts / diagnosis
  • Cysts / microbiology
  • Cysts / therapy
  • Ethambutol / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Hydropneumothorax / diagnosis
  • Hydropneumothorax / microbiology
  • Hydropneumothorax / therapy
  • Immunocompromised Host*
  • Liver Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Diseases / microbiology*
  • Liver Diseases / therapy
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / microbiology
  • Lung / surgery
  • Lung Diseases / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases / microbiology*
  • Lung Diseases / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium avium Complex / isolation & purification*
  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / diagnosis*
  • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / drug therapy
  • Pleura / diagnostic imaging
  • Pleura / microbiology
  • Pleura / surgery
  • Rifampin / therapeutic use
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Azithromycin
  • Ethambutol
  • Rifampin