Lady Windermere Syndrome

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Etiology

Mycobacterium intracellulare

Epidemiology

frail, elderly women with scoliosis or pectus excavatum

Clinical manifestations

cough reflex suppressed
right middle lobe syndrome

Laboratory

sputum for acid fast bacilli

Radiology

chest X-ray
- right middle lobe/lingular infiltrate
- nodular opacities with bronchiectasis in the right middle lobe

Notes

named after Lady Windermere, a character in Oscar Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's fan^[3]

More general terms

right middle lobe syndrome

References

↑ NEJM JWatch Question of the Week. March 27, 2018 https://knowledgeplus.nejm.org/question-of-week/562/
↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Weerakkody Y, Gaillard F Lady Windermere syndrome https://radiopaedia.org/articles/lady-windermere-syndrome

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