Shukla Amitabh Das, Chaudhary Abhinav, Verma Arvind Kumar, Anantha Shreenivasa
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Sep 19;2017:bcr-2017-221596. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-221596.
Lymphatic filariasis is a tropical parasitic disease and is endemic in India. It is present in various forms but its manifestation as pleural effusion is rare. Here, we describe a case of 58-year-old male who presented with complaint of left side chest pain and breathlessness. He was investigated and diagnosed as a case of left side pleural effusion due to filariasis, with peripheral blood lymphocytosis but without peripheral blood or pleural fluid eosinophilia. Our case foregrounds that filariasis can present with peripheral blood lymphocytosis and without peripheral blood or pleural fluid eosinophilia.
淋巴丝虫病是一种热带寄生虫病，在印度流行。它有多种表现形式，但其表现为胸腔积液的情况很少见。在此，我们描述一例58岁男性病例，该患者因左侧胸痛和呼吸急促前来就诊。经过检查，他被诊断为丝虫病导致的左侧胸腔积液，外周血淋巴细胞增多，但外周血或胸腔积液中无嗜酸性粒细胞增多。我们的病例表明，丝虫病可表现为外周血淋巴细胞增多，且外周血或胸腔积液中无嗜酸性粒细胞增多。
