September 2024 Medical Image of the Month: A Curious Case of Nasal Congestion

By: Swenson G, Herber S, Jokerst C

Abstract: No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 79-year-old man presented to our institution for evaluation of intermittent fevers, profound nasal pain with congestion, cough, sore throat, voice changes, fatigue, generalized weakness, and loose stools which had been progressively affecting the patient for the last 6 months.  The patient has a past medical history of ulcerative colitis, hypothyroidism, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension. Just preceding the onset of symptoms, the patient had gone on a month-long trip through Africa and Asia. His symptoms were presumed infectious in the outpatient setting and had responded somewhat to an extended course of ciprofloxacin and metronidazole.

The patient had an outpatient head and neck CT that demonstrated significant mucosal thickening of the maxillary sinuses (Figure 3A). An outside hospital CT of the abdomen/pelvis was unremarkable aside from sigmoid diverticulosis. The patient’s significant nasal pain and congestion along with the fevers was suggestive of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). The differential also included hematologic …

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