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ArticleRespirology case reports2026

Disseminated Thoracic Methicillin-Resistant

Evans Nii Ayitey MacCready, Emmanuel Larbi-Kwapong, Isaac Anokye-Manu, Romeo Yeboah Boaheng, Emmanuel Eshun, Papa Kojo Mbroh

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Article in Respirology case reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Disseminated Thoracic Methicillin-ResistantRespirology case reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Evans Nii Ayitey MacCreadyDepartment of Internal Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8521-1821
Emmanuel Larbi-KwapongDepartment of Internal Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.
Isaac Anokye-ManuDepartment of Internal Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.
Romeo Yeboah BoahengDepartment of Internal Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.
Emmanuel EshunDepartment of Internal Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.
Papa Kojo MbrohDepartment of Emergency Medicine Cape Coast Teaching Hospital Cape Coast Ghana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An 18-year-old male receiving haemodialysis through a central venous catheter presented with fever, productive cough, night sweats and progressive dyspnoea. Point-of-care ultrasound demonstrated bilateral complex pleural effusions, lung consolidation and a complex pericardial effusion. Initial management targeted severe bacterial sepsis, but computed tomography performed after clinical stabilization revealed bilateral consolidations, cavitary lung lesions and cavitating pulmonary nodules, raising concern for disseminated tuberculosis. GeneXpert testing of sputum, pleural fluid and pericardial fluid was negative, while blood, pleural fluid and catheter tip cultures grew methicillin-resistant

Indexed as

cavitary pulmonary diseaseempyema thoracisMRSApoint‐of‐care ultrasoundpurulent pericarditis

Identifiers

PMID42282869
PMCPMC13250627

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