Pleuropulmonary paragonimiasis in a Laotian immigrant to Australia

C M Mukerjee; S E Simpson; R J Bell; J C Walker

doi:10.1378/chest.101.3.849

Pleuropulmonary paragonimiasis in a Laotian immigrant to Australia

Chest. 1992 Mar;101(3):849-51. doi: 10.1378/chest.101.3.849.

Authors

C M Mukerjee¹, S E Simpson, R J Bell, J C Walker

Affiliation

¹ Chest Clinic, Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

PMID: 1541157
DOI: 10.1378/chest.101.3.849

Abstract

A case of pleuropulmonary paragonimiasis that mimicked reactivation of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia, and neoplasm occurred in a Laotian immigrant to Australia. The key to the diagnosis of this condition is awareness of the disease in persons from this region. The diagnosis was supported by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay testing. The patient was successfully treated with praziquantel.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Australia / epidemiology
Emigration and Immigration*
Humans
Laos / ethnology
Lung Diseases, Parasitic* / diagnostic imaging
Lung Diseases, Parasitic* / epidemiology
Lung Diseases, Parasitic* / ethnology
Male
Paragonimiasis* / diagnostic imaging
Paragonimiasis* / epidemiology
Paragonimiasis* / ethnology
Pleural Diseases* / diagnostic imaging
Pleural Diseases* / epidemiology
Radiography