Contemporary views were that he had tuberculosis, but more recent views are that it was bronchiectasis or even sarcoidosis.
22.
In 1936, Guido Fanconi described a connection between celiac disease, cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and bronchiectasis.
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Patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency have been found to be particularly susceptible to bronchiectasis, for unknown reasons.
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Tuberculosis, pneumonia, inhaled foreign bodies, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and bronchial tumours are the major acquired causes of bronchiectasis.
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In one study it has been observed that chronic purulent sputum production, most with proven bronchiectasis showed a high prevalence of rhinosinusitis.
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Jerry Ross died on November 11, 1955, at the age of 29, from complications related to the lung disease bronchiectasis.
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Infective causes associated with bronchiectasis include infections caused by the Staphylococcus, Klebsiella, or Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough.
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Many experience cough and chest infections or a chronic lung condition known as bronchiectasis which causes chronic production of sputum with episodes of worsening.
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Left untreated, this manifests as progressive bronchiectasis and pulmonary fibrosis that is often seen in the radiological appearance to that produced by tuberculosis.
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If they do, they are said to have Kartagener syndrome, characterized by the triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, and bronchiectasis.
