title: [Complications of pulmonary involvement in Bechterew's disease].
abstract: Fibrocystic changes in the upper lung lobes are a rare visceral manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis. The impaired bronchopulmonary clearance in bronchial, pulmonary or pleural cavities predisposes to secondary microbial colonisation. Two cases are reported--one patient proved to have non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease caused by M. kansasii, the other developed an aspergilloma.
authors.affiliation: II. Pneumologische Abteilung, Lungenklinik Heckeshorn, Krankenhaus Zehlendorf, Berlin.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schönfeld
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Matthiessen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grassot
mesh_terms: D001228:Aspergillosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000209:etiology*; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000150:complications*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: Komplikationen der pulmonalen Beteiligung beim M. Bechterew.