ArticleIndian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2025
Mediastinal nocardiosis causing dysphagia/odynophagia: a case report.
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Abstract
Nocardiosis is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening infection. It predominantly affects immunocompromised individuals or those with chronic lung diseases. The lungs are the most frequent focus of infection, followed by the skin and brain. Mediastinal nocardiosis remains exceedingly rare, with only a few cases reported in published medical literature. We report a case of a middle-aged man on chronic corticosteroids for autoimmune hemolytic anemia, who presented with dysphagia and odynophagia, with an apparently normal esophagogastroduodenoscopy, but with a mass/abscess abutting the esophagus on cross-sectional imaging, ultimately diagnosed with endoscopic ultrasound-guided aspiration yielding Gram-positive, acid-fast, branching filamentous rods, and culture confirmed Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12055-025-02020-8.
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