A “double fistula” with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease

Ahel El Haj Chehade; Ibrahim Raphael; Brent Brown; Tony Abdo

doi:10.1002/rcr2.809

Respirology Case Reports (Aug 2021)

A “double fistula” with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease

Ahel El Haj Chehade,
Ibrahim Raphael,
Brent Brown,
Tony Abdo

Affiliations

Ahel El Haj Chehade: Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The University of Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center Oklahoma City OK USA
Ibrahim Raphael: Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The University of Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center Oklahoma City OK USA
Brent Brown: Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The University of Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center Oklahoma City OK USA
Tony Abdo: Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The University of Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center Oklahoma City OK USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.809
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 8
pp. n/a – n/a

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Key message We present a patient with a history of cavitary mycobacterial lung infection and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who developed two connected fistulas post thoracentesis, an alveolo‐pleural and a pleuro‐cutaneous fistula, leading to continuous air leak from a stoma on his back.

Published in Respirology Case Reports

ISSN: 2051-3380 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20513380

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