A 52-Year-Old Man With an 11-Month History of Fever, Cough, Chest Pain, Pleural Effusion, and Left Lung Atelectasis.

A 52-year-old man was referred to our hospital for cough, fever, chest pain, and progressive dyspnea. He has worked as a full-time security staff at a community center and was in a normal state of health until 11 months prior to referral when he began experiencing cough, expectoration, a high-grade fever (up to 39.7°C), chills, and left chest pain. He visited the local hospital several times with suspected lung cancer. Bronchoscopy showed chronic inflammatory changes in his bronchi. He was given a course of antibiotics, but his fever had not subsided. The patient had visited a bamboo rat farm and consumed bamboo rat meat one year previously. He had never smoked. Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Citation

Li Chen, Liqiong Yu, Yi Wu, Wai-Kit Ming, Zhihong Huang, Shengming Liu. A 52-Year-Old Man With an 11-Month History of Fever, Cough, Chest Pain, Pleural Effusion, and Left Lung Atelectasis. Chest. 2020 Oct;158(4):e153-e157

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PMID: 33036111

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