Mycobacterium Fortuitum infection associated with achalasia

Abstract

The association between achalasia and no tuberculosis mycobacterial   lung infection is well described in the literature. MycobactériumFortuitum is often responsible, and the clinical‘s presentation   is an aspiration pneumonia resistant to usual antibiotic therapy.
We report the case of a 15 year-old patient with the history of Allgrove syndrome. The chest imaging showed right lung congestion; the diagnosis was bacteriological and MycobactériumFortuitum resistant to rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol was isolated.
The patient was treated by the association cotrimoxazole, ciprofloxacin and clarithromycin for 12 months and the clinical, radiological and bacteriological outcomes were favorable.
To prevent the recurrence the patient benefited from a cardiomyotomy.