A "double fistula" with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease

Ahel El Haj Chehade; Ibrahim Raphael; Brent Brown; Tony Abdo

doi:10.1002/rcr2.809

A "double fistula" with Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease

Respirol Case Rep. 2021 Jul 5;9(8):e00809. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.809. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Ahel El Haj Chehade¹, Ibrahim Raphael¹, Brent Brown¹, Tony Abdo¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The University of Oklahoma Health and Sciences Center Oklahoma City OK USA.

Abstract

We present a patient with a history of cavitary mycobacterial lung infection and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who developed two connected fistulas post thoracentesis, an alveolo-pleural and a pleuro-cutaneous fistula, leading to continuous air leak from a stoma on his back.

Keywords: COPD; Mycobacterium avium complex; fistula; iatrogenic.