[33 year old Libanese woman with recurrent haemoptysis and cystic lesion of the lung].
A 33 year old woman from Lebanon presented with recurrent hemoptysis, subfebrile temperature, dyspnoe in stress, fatigue, weight loss, and pruritus. Serological tests and results from chest X-ray and computer tomography revealed cystic echinococcosis with pulmonary involvement. After refusal of surgical therapy a medical treatment with albendazole was implemented. Two months after the start of the therapy only a small fibrotic residuum in the lung was seen. A spontaneous healing success seems unlikely because of the duration of the pulmonary cyst and the progressive symptoms before treatment.
Abteilung für Infektions- und Tropenmedizin, Medizinische Poliklinik, Klinikum der Universität München. mariaheinzlmann@t-online.de
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M
Heinzlmann
U G
UG
Mueller-Lisse
T
T
Mühling
M
M
Hölscher
H D
HD
Nothdurft
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F
von Sonnenburg
T
T
Löscher
D000328:Adult; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D004445:Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D015766:Albendazole