Opportunistic actinomycosis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

Thorax. 2022 Aug;77(8):842-843. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217940. Epub 2022 Mar 18.

Authors

Sze Shyang Kho^{1

2}, Suhashini Ganapaty³, Noorjehan Omar³, Shang Ze Tan⁴, Mona Zaria Nasarudin⁵, Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonology, Serdang Hospital, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia khosze@moh.gov.my.
² Division of Respiratory Medicine, Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
³ Department of Pathology, Serdang Hospital, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Hospital Ampang, Ampang, Malaysia.
⁵ Department of Pulmonology, Serdang Hospital, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.

PMID: 35304426
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217940

No abstract available

Keywords: GM-CSF autoantibody; imaging/CT MRI etc; pulmonary alveolar proteinosis; rare lung diseases.

MeSH terms

Actinomycosis* / diagnosis
Autoantibodies
Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
Humans
Lung
Macrophages, Alveolar
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis* / diagnostic imaging

Substances

Autoantibodies
Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor