Pulmonary infection with rapidly growing mycobacteria in a singer with achalasia: A case report

Improvement of Respiratory Symptoms Following Heller Myotomy for Achalasia

“…These include case reports of atypical infections, hoarseness resulting from recurrent laryngeal nerve compression, and more serious and lifethreatening complications such as stridor and tracheal obstruction from airway compression. 3,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] To our knowledge, no prior studies have examined what effect surgical treatment with Heller myotomy has on respiratory disorders associated with achalasia. In this study, we set up to systematically examine the effect of this operation on these symptoms.…”

“…Several previous case reports have suggested a connection between acquired respiratory conditions and achalasia. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] More recently, we carried out a systematic investigation of the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and diseases in patients with achalasia 8 and reported a relatively high prevalence of patients with cough, hoarseness, wheezing, dyspnea, sore throat, and episodes of pneumonia. Although the pathophysiology is now known, it has been postulated that impaired esophageal emptying from achalasia may result not only in dysphagia but also that the retained food and secretions pooled in the esophagus may give rise to episodes of microand macro-aspiration, leading to symptoms or airway and pulmonary disease.…”

An 8-year study on the prevalence and drug resistance of mycobacteria in clinical specimens (2011–2018)

“…1,2 The majority of these species do not cause disease but may, under certain conditions, become opportunistic pathogens and cause infection. 3 Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) are opportunistic pathogens that cause skin and chronic lung infections. These species are widely present in the environment.…”

Evaluation of INNO-LiPA mycobacteria v2 assay for identification of rapidly growing mycobacteria

“…RGM have been described in pulmonary infections, keratitis, endophthalmitis, suppurative arthritis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, meningitis, peritonitis, chronic urinary tract infection, otitis media related to tympanostomy tube insertion and catheter-associated bacteremia. The members of the Mycobacterium fortuitum complex, M. chelonae and M. abscessus are the species most frequently associated with human infections; the rest of species are minority and occasionally reported (2,3,6,13,14). Evaluation of INNO-LiPA Mycobacteria Identification of new species of RGM producing nosocomial infections and serious infections in oncological and immunocompromised patients has been possible thanks to the development of modern microbiological diagnosis systems and genetic methods, such as the sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA region or the restriction enzyme pattern analysis of the hsp65 gene (PRA), which encodes for the 65-kDa heat shock protein (1,8,10).…”