Mycobacterium abscessus chest X ray

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Rim Halaby, M.D. [2]

Overview

Chest X-Ray

Patients with pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infection might have the following on chest X-ray:[1][2]

  • Upper lobe infiltrates
  • Bilateral involvement of the lungs
  • Mulilobal involvement
  • Opacities (patchy, reticulonodular, ot mixed interstitial-alveolar)
  • Cavitation

References

  1. Griffith DE, Girard WM, Wallace RJ (1993). "Clinical features of pulmonary disease caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria. An analysis of 154 patients". Am Rev Respir Dis. 147 (5): 1271–8. doi:10.1164/ajrccm/147.5.1271. PMID 8484642.
  2. Griffith DE, Aksamit T, Brown-Elliott BA, Catanzaro A, Daley C, Gordin F; et al. (2007). "An official ATS/IDSA statement: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases". Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 175 (4): 367–416. doi:10.1164/rccm.200604-571ST. PMID 17277290.


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