A 35-Year-Old Man With Fever and Pulmonary Cavity

Yuan Cheng; Gesang Quzhen; Melang Chutso; Bian Ma Cuo; Yan You; Nima Zhuoma; Xichao Sui; Ni Ping

doi:10.1016/j.chest.2022.11.008

A 35-Year-Old Man With Fever and Pulmonary Cavity

Chest. 2023 Apr;163(4):e187-e191. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.11.008.

Authors

Yuan Cheng¹, Gesang Quzhen², Melang Chutso³, Bian Ma Cuo², Yan You⁴, Nima Zhuoma⁴, Xichao Sui⁵, Ni Ping⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa; Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa. Electronic address: meilang2008@126.com.
⁴ Department of Pathology, People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa.
⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa.

PMID: 37031992
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.11.008

Abstract

A 35-year-old man was hospitalized with fever, chest pain, and cough of 2 weeks' duration. These symptoms persisted despite 4 days of antibiotic treatment with IV ceftriaxone sodium 2 g/d. The patient was a nonsmoker with an unremarkable medical history who worked as a herdsman and lived in the Shigate region of Tibet, China.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents* / therapeutic use
Ceftriaxone / therapeutic use
Chest Pain / diagnosis
Cough / diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Fever* / diagnosis
Fever* / etiology
Humans
Male

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Ceftriaxone