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CASE REPORT
Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma presenting as complete lung consolidation
  1. Ahmad Alwassia1,
  2. Ziyad Alshathri1,
  3. Rahul Khosla2,
  4. Samuel V Spagnolo2
  1. 1Department of Pulmonary Critical Care, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
  2. 2Department of Pulmonary Critical Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ahmad Alwassia, alwassia5{at}hotmail.com

Summary

The patient in our case presented with progressive dyspnoea and cough. Chest radiograph reveals complete opacification of the hemithorax. Complete lung consolidation was not seen on chest CT. The patient in this case had extensive pulmonary and endobronchial Kaposi sarcoma (KS) that led to complete consolidation of the right lung that was diagnosed via bronchoscopy. After diagnosis, he was restarted on antiretroviral therapy and single-agent chemotherapy for treatment of pulmonary KS.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-219048

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AA was involved in the patient initial work up and follow-up, performing procedure, literature search and drafting/editing of the manuscript. ZA was involved in patient follow-up, performing the procedure, literature search and editing of the manuscript. RK was involved in patient follow-up, literature search and editing of manuscript. SVS was involved in patient follow-up, literature search and editing of manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.