Lung manifestations in an autopsy-based series of pulmonary or disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comparisons of lung manifestations in primary pulmonary vs disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial disease have not been well described. The clinical, histopathologic, and radiologic disease manifestations of primary pulmonary or disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial disease were compared in an autopsy series.

Methods

Medical and microbiologic records, autopsy reports, histopathologic slides of the lungs, and chest CT scans were reviewed on patients at the National Institutes of Health with nontuberculous mycobacterial disease who died between 1996 and 2010.

Results

The 11 patients with primary pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease were predominantly female (n = 9), with symptom onset at median 50 (range 35, 71) years and time from onset unti

SUBMITTER: O'Connell ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3342780 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature