Case 33322

Abstract
Presentation of CaseA forty-year-old housewife entered the hospital because of right chest pain and hemoptyses.Thirteen years before entry she developed an upper respiratory infection followed by cough, fever and pleuritic pain on the right side. An x-ray film of the chest was said to have shown fluid at the right base. A sputum smear was negative for acid-fast organisms. After several weeks in bed she felt completely well except for a persistent, mild, slightly productive cough, which became accentuated when she had a "cold." Eight years before entry two pregnancies were interrupted on the basis of another chest . . .