Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Fever, Weight Loss, Cough, and Chest Pain. Part 2

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The
patient’s vital signs were: fundamental measure, 38.1°C; blood line
imperativeness, 128/74 mmHg; and gist rate, 110 beats per minute of
arc.
He was cachectic and in mild hardship.
A head-ear-eyes-nose-throat (HEENT) exam showed slight bitemporal
debility, some shotty lymphadenopathy, and no indicant of singer.
The cardiovascular exam demonstrated tachycardia, but was otherwise
unremarkable.
The lungs were open to auscultation bilaterally.
The bodily cavity was soft, non-tender, and non-distended with good
bowel sounds.
The extremities demonstrated no clubbing, cyanosis, or edema.

Assemblage 1 .
Additional Tests and Procedures.

Given
the patient’s pulmonary symptomatology, he underwent fiberoptic
bronchoscopy to obtain bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) substance.
The BAL substance was stained and analyzed with the results shown in
Figures 1A-D.
A sonogram of the short temper was normal, while a computed tomography
(CT) scan of the venter demonstrated patchy basilar lung disease, mild
hepatomegaly, and normal kidneys.
Furniture x-ray showed a left posterobasal infiltrate as well as a
retrocardiac infiltrate.
A CT scan of the furniture, without intravenous differentiation,
demonstrated no albenza or hilar adenopathy and the manner of a
size pericardial reflection.
In improver, both lower lobes of the lungs demonstrated a patchy
combine with a ground-glass occurrent.
No destructive bone lesions were observed.
Patient’s bronchoalveolar lavage matter, illustrating stained spores of
microsporidia (A, Gram stain; 1,000x magnification; B, Trichrome
modified soil, 1,000x magnification) and (C,D) gear mechanism electron
micrographs, illustrating the transverse dimensions of a typical
microsporidian spore recovered from the patient’s BAL matter.



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