title: [Clinical comparison of male and female patients with pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium avium complex (P-MAC)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study was to clarify clinical feature of Pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex disease (P-MAC).
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study was performed in 120 patients with P-MAC diagnosed during the period from January 2000 to March 2007. We divided P-MAC patients into four groups by the clinical disease type and gender, and retrospectively examined the clinical characteristics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The subjects were 15 male (NB-M) and 71 female (NB-F) patients with nodular bronchiectatic disease (NB), and 24 male (FC-M) and 10 female (FC-F) patients with fibrocavitary disease (FC). The average age was lowest in the NB-F group (58.0 yrs), and highest in the FC-M group (65.8 yrs). There were 17 patients in the FC-M group and only two patients in the FC-F group with a history of smoking. The average body mass index (BMI) was 16.9, with the lowest value in the FC-F group. In the FC-M group, most of the patients had underlying pulmonary disease, whereas in the FC-F group, only four patients had underlying old pulmonary tuberculosis. The average anterior-posterior dimension was 75.2 mm, being lowest in the FC-F group, and more than 90 mm in the other groups. The proportion of refractory cases was lowest in the NB-M group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We thought that we were able to clarify characteristics of patients with disease caused by MAC by analyzing the types of the disease separately in men and women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center. aquablueblue@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Kozo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Rie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moriya
authors.forename: Aiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Masunaga
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kamiya
authors.forename: Tsunehiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: Souichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikushima
authors.forename: Masaru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oritsu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012907:Smoking; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents