A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion

A fifty-eight-year-old, nonsmoker Indian male presented with recurrent left pleural effusion. He had history of dry cough, exertional breathlessness for the last two years. He denied any occupational exposure or second hand smoke exposure. His physical examination demonstrated decreased breath sound...

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Main Authors: Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Jitendra Kumar Saini, Prabhpreet Sethi, Rohit Sarin
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pulmonology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2982763
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description A fifty-eight-year-old, nonsmoker Indian male presented with recurrent left pleural effusion. He had history of dry cough, exertional breathlessness for the last two years. He denied any occupational exposure or second hand smoke exposure. His physical examination demonstrated decreased breath sounds on the left side of chest. Cardiac evaluation was unremarkable. Diagnostic pleural aspiration revealed straw coloured fluid, exudative, and nonmalignant in nature. CT-imaging of the chest demonstrated left pleural effusion, nodular parenchymal infiltrates in bilateral lungs, plate like atelectasis in the left lower lobe. Bronchoscopy showed diffuse airway pigmentation, right middle lobe opening, and left lower lobe bronchus pigmented and stenosed. Semi-rigid pleuro-videoscopy revealed diffuse black coloured deposits over visceral pleura and focally scattered deposits over parietal pleura. Spirometry showed mild airway obstruction with moderate impairment in diffusion capacity.
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spelling doaj-art-0cb9b51b34a14b208d1fb6163efd62942025-08-20T03:54:15ZengWileyCase Reports in Pulmonology2090-68462090-68542019-01-01201910.1155/2019/29827632982763A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural EffusionRajesh Kumar Yadav0Jitendra Kumar Saini1Prabhpreet Sethi2Rohit Sarin3Senior Resident, Department of TB and Respiratory Diseases, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, IndiaChest Specialist Grade-I, Department of TB and Respiratory Diseases, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, IndiaChest Specialist Grade-I, Department of TB and Respiratory Diseases, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, IndiaDirector & Professor, Department of TB and Respiratory Diseases, National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, IndiaA fifty-eight-year-old, nonsmoker Indian male presented with recurrent left pleural effusion. He had history of dry cough, exertional breathlessness for the last two years. He denied any occupational exposure or second hand smoke exposure. His physical examination demonstrated decreased breath sounds on the left side of chest. Cardiac evaluation was unremarkable. Diagnostic pleural aspiration revealed straw coloured fluid, exudative, and nonmalignant in nature. CT-imaging of the chest demonstrated left pleural effusion, nodular parenchymal infiltrates in bilateral lungs, plate like atelectasis in the left lower lobe. Bronchoscopy showed diffuse airway pigmentation, right middle lobe opening, and left lower lobe bronchus pigmented and stenosed. Semi-rigid pleuro-videoscopy revealed diffuse black coloured deposits over visceral pleura and focally scattered deposits over parietal pleura. Spirometry showed mild airway obstruction with moderate impairment in diffusion capacity.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2982763
spellingShingle Rajesh Kumar Yadav
Jitendra Kumar Saini
Prabhpreet Sethi
Rohit Sarin
A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
Case Reports in Pulmonology
title A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
title_full A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
title_short A Rare Case of Bronchial Anthracofibrosis with Pleural Anthracosis Presented as Recurrent Pleural Effusion
title_sort rare case of bronchial anthracofibrosis with pleural anthracosis presented as recurrent pleural effusion
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2982763
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