Saman Harman, Mhammed Hadi, Ali Mohammed Kosar, Karadakhy Kamaran
Department of Thoracic Medicine, George Eliot Hospital, NHS Trust College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ, United Kingdom.
Respiratory Medicine Board Candidate. Shar Teaching Hospital, Sulaimania, Kurdistan, Iraq.
Respir Med Case Rep. 2019 Jun 26;28:100891. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100891. eCollection 2019.
In this article we present a case of a 75-year-old nonsmoker woman who was misdiagnosed as asthma-chronic obstructive airway disease overlap. The patient's history, examination and investigation confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and anthracofibrosis (AFB). Our case demonstrates the difficulties that clinicians face with when patients present with chronic wheeze without any other specific symptoms at the outset.
在本文中,我们介绍了一例75岁不吸烟女性的病例,该患者最初被误诊为哮喘-慢性阻塞性气道疾病重叠综合征。患者的病史、检查及调查结果确诊为肺结核(TB)和肺炭末沉着纤维化(AFB)。我们的病例展示了临床医生在面对初始表现为慢性喘息且无任何其他特异性症状的患者时所面临的困难。