Mycobacterium fortuitum Pulmonary Infection Complicating Achalasia
- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 84 (11) , 1391-1393
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-199111000-00027
Abstract
Achalasia is a cause of chronic aspiration pneumonia that may be complicated by pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium fortuitum. In any patient with achalasia, the presence of a pulmonary infiltrate that does not respond to routine antibiotic therapy should suggest the possibility of M fortuitum pulmonary infection, and sputum should be cultured for these organisms.Keywords
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