An unusual cause of bronchial obstruction

Abstract

We present here a case of bronchial obstruction secondary to late paradoxical reactive enlargement and erosion by mediastinal lymph nodes into the left main bronchus in a 26-year-old woman with tuberculosis lymphadenitis. Bronchial obstruction due to paradoxical reactions, especially in the late phase of treatment, has not been described in adults before.

Keywords

• Bronchial obstruction
• immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
• introduction
• mediastinal lymphadenopathy
• paradoxical reaction
• Tuberculosis