Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: A 53-year-old male, had had mitral valve replacement in 2008 for mitral stenosis and myasthenia gravis, on steroids and azathioprine, presented with clinical and radiological features of recurrent pneumonia involving the same area of the lung, 2 months apart (Figs.1a-d).He was managed as a case of community-acquired pneumonia.Subsequently, he developed giddiness, projectile vomiting, and occipital headache.Contrast-enhanced CT brain showed a ring-enhancing multiseptated lesion measuring 9 16 14 mm in the left occipital lobe (Fig. 2).He underwent a video bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL).Modified Ziehl-Neelsen stain showed thin filamentous acid-fast bacteria (Fig. 3).
Institutions: Indian Army, Armed Forces Medical College
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7225152482