A Rare Bug and Recurrent Bleed

Yashendu Sarda; Vishak K Acharya; Deepthi Sharma; G V Chaithra; Madhav M Kamath; Santosh P V Rai

doi:10.4103/jgid.jgid_137_20

A Rare Bug and Recurrent Bleed

J Glob Infect Dis. 2021 May 12;13(2):97-99. doi: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_137_20. eCollection 2021 Apr-Jun.

Authors

Yashendu Sarda¹, Vishak K Acharya², Deepthi Sharma², G V Chaithra³, Madhav M Kamath⁴, Santosh P V Rai⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE Manipal, Karnataka, India.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE Manipal, Karnataka, India.
³ Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE Manipal, Karnataka, India.
⁴ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE Manipal, Karnataka, India.
⁵ Department of Radiodiagnosis, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, MAHE Manipal, Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Isolated pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare entity. Its clinical features and radiological findings are nonspecific, making early diagnosis difficult for clinicians. We report a case of 40-year-old nonsmoker, immunocompetent male without an underlying structural lung disease who presented to us with recurrent hemoptysis and was diagnosed to have Actinomycosis after multiple readmissions.

Keywords: Pulmonary actinomycosis; recurrent hemoptysis; solitary pulmonary nodule.

Publication types

Case Reports