TY - JOUR T1 - An unusual but important cause of wheezing JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 301 LP - 303 DO - 10.1183/18106838.0303.301 VL - 3 IS - 3 AU - I. Cherrez-Ojeda AU - A. Tafur AU - T. Guerrero AU - R. Mantilla Y1 - 2007/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/3/3/301.abstract N2 - A 42-year-old Ecuadorian male presented with nocturnal wheezing, cough and purulent sputum. The symptoms had started approximately 4 months previously. After travelling to Venezuela, the patient had visited a general practitioner reporting flu-like symptoms which resolved with symptomatic medication. Soon afterwards, the patient developed dyspnoea with low-grade fever and eventually productive cough. The patient denied having had any other symptoms at that time. The patient was treated for community-acquired pneumonia with clarithromycin, acetylcysteine and bronchodilators. The symptoms improved, but nocturnal wheezing without dyspnoea and cough with purulent sputum had been bothering the patient intermittently during the previous 2 months. The cough was especially disturbing at awakening and at night. The patient self-referred to a pneumologist. ER -