A 75-Year-Old Female with Hemoptysis and Recurrent Respiratory Infections

Table 1

Indolent cases of actinomycosis.

Source	Publication year	Age or number of patients	Symptoms	Hospital presentation	Diagnosis	Radiologic findings	Treatment	Outcome
Reechaipichitkul et al. [5]	2005	41 years	Fevers & hemoptysis over 2 years	Massive hemoptysis	Histopathology	Extensive right upper lobe infiltrate	Emergent right upper lobectomy, intravenous augmentin followed by amoxicillin	Hemoptysis resolved
Ma et al. [6]	2009	66 years	Fevers & productive cough over 4 years	Indolent symptoms of fever and cough	Histopathology	Right middle lobe infiltrates	Surgical resection and antibiotics	Symptoms resolved
Dujneungkunakorn et al. [7]	1999	16 patients	Cough and hemoptysis most common; mean duration of symptoms: 9 months	Indolent symptoms as reported	Histopathology	Mass-like shadowing most common (37%)	Surgical resection in 8 patients; antibiotics for all	All patients who had surgical resection were cured; 20% of antibiotic-only group did not respond