Chronic beryllium disease

Chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is a granulomatous, interstitial lung disease that occurs in individuals who develop beryllium sensitization (BeS), a cell-mediated immune response to environmental and occupational beryllium exposure. BeS precedes the lung disease that may present with chronic dry cough, fatigue, weight loss, chest pain, and increasing dyspnea.

Pneumonia

Inflammation of any part of the lung parenchyma.


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PMID (PMCID)
29374638
 MALE Middle Aged
Fluctuating hypercalcaemia caused by cavitary Mycobacterium bovis pulmonary infection.
Moloney DP, Chawke L, Crowley MT, O'Connor TM.
BMJ Case Rep. 2018;2018:.
Other causes include berylliosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, Crohn's disease, silicone-induced granulomas, cat-scratch disease, Wegener's granulomatosis and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.