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Glad you liked the garden folks.
Yes we still have the pesky kitten and no she has not calmed down much. She now is having to go out all night as the other two were so stressed out with her that they spent all night trying to escape and they do not like going out at night.
She even jumps on our neighbours huge, brute of a cat as well. He runs away from her too and she is half his size.
We had family visiting from Tasmania yesterday. This is what the garden looked like for them. Took a lot of work to get it neat enough for my liking.s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/August%20Visit
Scab on potatoes is caused by a lack of lime, so basically your compost was too acid. It only affects potatoes so there is no danger to any other crop. However, having said that, most Vegetables prefer a slightly alkaline soil so if you want to grow something else in this compost you would need to add some lime and obviously some plant food for the next crop.
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Try Saxifraga fortunei.
We had one of those new fangled Prairie style gardens. We dug it out on the grounds that if you provide a suitable growing condition for Ornamental grasses then couch and creeping fescue and other unwanteds will also like it and boy did they.
Zephirin Drouhin might be thornless, but here it is leafless from mid August onwards because of blackspot which causes the leaves to fall off.
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Believe me it will spread! Leave the seeds if you want more.Birds will put them all over the place for you.
Three for one!
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I got bored being home alone all the time. My husband is an Executive Accountant and doesn't want me to work. So I stay home, clean the house, surf the net, play tennis, and do my next door neighbor.
It started when I felt sorry for my neighbor. He is a veteran who got shot up in the military and is in a wheelchair. We started talking every day mostly because I could see he was lonely and felt sorry he was in the wheelchair. I invited him in for coffee one day and after coffee he pulled me down and kissed me. I should have told him to stop but the feeling sorry overruled common sense and I didn't think he was a threat because I didn't think he could have s** (Boy was I wrong!). So I kissed him back and let him play with my b****** after he got my bra off.
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I'm very happy with this arrangement. Sometimes I have s** twice a day. I get it with my neighbor in the morning and from my husband at night. What modern girl wouldn't love that?
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You're a w****. I hope your husband is f*****g his secretary.
I have to agree with the earlier post. You're sick and a w****. it's women like you that make men treat women with suspicion and won't trust them. Your husband is probably s******* around on you, too, and you probably would freak out if it was. If you would scrape off that impacted s**** stuck on the roof of your mouth you'd find the fulfillment you need.
You are sick. Really sick. I love how your being bored is your husband's fault because he doesn't want you to work. I'm so happy to hear you're having s** twice a day with two different men you obviously care nothing about. Certifies you as a w****. Congrats, s***!
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What are your qualifications? Why does your husband want to squirrel you away?
I'll be up all night thinking about this. ..
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Who are you pregnant by hubby or the neighbor?
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u have s** with a handicap? u slutty b****!
You are such a s***...I wish my wife was a s***.
That is a beautiful thing. Brings tears to my eyes. It reminds me of that movie, The Bridges of Madison County.
You are a judgmental piece of s*** who probably never gets laid. Up yours and kiss mine!
You are a horrible human being! Your husband trusts you, you stupid w****! No, its not nice to sleep with other people, if you were someone I know I would immediately tell your husband. S***!
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Characterizing Groundwater Dynamics Based on Impact of Pulp and Paper Mill Effluent Irrigation and Climate Variability
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Change in groundwater dynamics (in terms of changes in depth to watertable and its salinity) is a key environmental concern for agricultural production using pulp and paper mill effluent for irrigation purposes. At the study site, the treated effluent is delivered from the mill into a winter storage dam. This storage dam is also meant to provide an opportunity for runoff collection and recycling for irrigated areas. A natural creek also exists along the farm boundary. This paper presents, using field observation data and computer simulation results, the impact of using treated effluent from the pulp and paper mill on groundwater dynamics at the farm (covering areas both under and outside the effluent irrigation paddocks); and on the flows in the adjacent creek. The modeling results show that after 5 years of operations, the change in aquifer storage is more under average climatic conditions (−23.5 mm/year) as compared to −7.1 and −9.0 mm/year under dry and wet climatic conditions, .respectively. Under average climatic conditions, the combined effect of irrigation and rainfall creates more hydraulic gradient towards the creek thereby depleting the aquifer storage more as compared to wet and dry climatic conditions. Resultantly, the subsurface groundwater flows towards the creek becomes around 57.9 mm/year under average scenario as compared to 55.0 and 36.7 mm/year under wet and dry climatic conditions, respectively. During the average climatic condition, 456.6 mm evaporation from shallow groundwater was estimated under the current management practices; which was reduced to 399.1 mm under the best management practices due to better use of all sources of water and capillary upflow from shallow groundwater. Thus, with the adoption of best management practices, there would be less risk of salinisation due to evaporation from shallow groundwater tables.


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United States Patent Fuss July 1, 1975 1 CASCADE DIGITAL FAST FOURIER 3,816,729 6/1974 Works 235/156 ANALYZER [75] Inventor: Peter Siegfried Fuss, Greensboro, Primary Examiner David H Malzahn Attorney, Agent, or FirmW. Ryan [73] Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories,
Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ.
[22] Filed: Dec. 27, 1971 [57] ABSTRACT [21] App1.No.: 212,572
A single-input-channel cascade FFT processor is de scribed which includes a plurality of cascaded arith- [52] 235/156 metic units interconnected by delay and switching ele- [Sl] f /34 ments. All components are operated at full capacity [58] Fleld Search 235/156; 324/77 77 G1 without the requirement that the input sequence be 324/77 H1 77 reordered in a digits-reversed or other manner.
[56] Reierences Cited 3 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,588,460 6/1971 Smith 235/156 230 FIG-2A INPUT RATE ZR SAMPLES/ 220 OUTPUT RATE 221 a 5mm: mas
100-1. 115-: FIG 2 100-2 115-3 100-3 1 1 f 1 110 I AMAZAMO 101 1 M DEW-IL o DELAY ARITHMETIC I (z) ARII'HMETIC (U ARITHMETIC 1, M, .u DEW m-a UN T [2| I T (a) LIN [11 I in CASCADE DIGITAL FAST FOURIER ANALYZER GOVERNMENT CONTRACT The invention herein claimed was made in the course of or under a contract with the Department of the Navy.
This invention relates to signal processing apparatus and methods. More particularly this invention relates to apparatus and methods for generating Fourier series coefficients corresponding to a sequence of input signals. Still more particularly, this invention relates to a digital processor having a plurality of cascaded stages, each capable of generating a sequence of signals corresponding to the Fourier coefficients of selected signals applied at its input.
The well-known fast Fourier transform techniques have been applied to a wide range of signal analysis problems. Particular apparatus and methods for performing the fast Fourier transform have taken many different forms. A recent summary of several of the most popular configurations is presented in Fast Fourier Transform Hardware Implementations" by G. D. Bergland, lEEE Trans. on Audio and Electroacoustics, Vol. AU-l7, June 1969, pp. 104-108. Another useful reference is Cochran et al., What ls the Fast Fourier Transform, IEEE Trans. Audio and Electroacoustics, June 1967, pp. 45-55. One particular form of fast Fourier transform apparatus which has been found to be of commercial importance is the so-called cascade or pipeline processor, described, for example, in Bergland and Hale, Digital Real-Time Spectral Analysis, IEEE Trans. Electronic Computers, Vol. EC-l6, pp. 180-185, April 1967, and in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,544,775, issued Dec. 1, 1970 to G. D. Bergland et al., and 3,588,460 issued June 28, 1971 to R. A. Smith.
Other useful references dealing with the so-called cascade or pipeline fast Fourier transform processor include Groginsky and Works, A Pipeline Fast Fourier Transform," 1969 IEEE Eascon Rec., pp. 22-29; and OLeary, Nonrecursive Digital Filtering Using Cascade Fast Fourier Transformers," IEEE Trans. on Audio and Electroacoustics, June 1970, pp. 177-183.
The above-cited Smith patent described an improvement to the basic cascaded Fourier processor described, for example, in the Bergland et al patent, supra. Smith found it possible to more fully utilize the apparatus of the Bergland configuration to achieve higher efficiencies under certain circumstances. In particular, it was noted by Smith that not all of the apparatus in the Bergland et a1 configuration was used at substantially full capacity. By utilizing this spare capacity and by appropriately routing signals, it was shown by Smith that two complete input sequences could be processed with little or no more hardware than was previously required for a single input sequence.
A patent application by the present inventor, Ser. No. 82,572 filed Oct. 21, 1970 and assigned to the assignee of the instant application, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,393 issued Nov. 7, 1972, describes a further improvement to previously known cascade fast Fourier transform organizations. In this last-mentioned patent application there is disclosed a cascade processor organized to receive but a single input data stream and to utilize each delay and computational element to its fullest extent. Thus U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,393 presents an improvement over the Smith patent in that, inter alia,
two separate input sequences need not be present to achieve the desired efficient operation.
The system described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,393 required, however, that the input sequence to be transformed be scrambled" in accordance with the well known digits-reversed technique. Thus an additional stage of preprocessing is required in using the otherwise improved cascade FFl' processor. The importance of eliminating the need for prescrambling of the input sequence is especially evident when it is desired that overlapped or redundant processing is involved. Thus, while eflicient means have been developed for simultaneously prescrambling an input data sequence while providing for Fourier transforming of partially overlapped data records, nevertheless an additional complexity must be tolerated. For a more complete description of methods and apparatus for performing prescrambling in a manner compatible with the FFT processing described in copending application U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,393, see the patent application Ser. No. 211,882 by F. W. Thies filed of even date herewith.
1t is therefore an object of the present invention to provide for the simplified generation of Fourier series coefficients. it is a further object of the present invention to provide for simplified cascade fast Fourier transform processing units which utilize the individual computational and storage elements with improved efficiency. It is a further object of the present invention to provide in a digital cascade fast Fourier transform processor for the generation of Fourier series coefficients based on a single input data sequence. It is still a further object of the instant invention to provide for the generation of Fourier series coefficients based on a single input data sequence where the input data sequence is presented in its normal (non-scrambled) order.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Briefly stated, in accordance with a typical embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a plurality of cascaded computational units of the type described generally in the Bergland et a1. and Smith patents, supra. The input to the first stage is arranged to be a bifurcated version of the input sequence for which Fourier series coefficients are desired. Unlike the above-cited U.S. Pat. No. 3,702,393, however, the input streams are not scrambled in digits-reversed order. The bifurcation of the input sequence is conveniently accomplished by a switching arrangement which selects alternately from elements of the first and second half of each input record.
The outputs of the first and subsequent stages are conveniently grouped into subsets by a switching and delay arrangement prior to application to inputs of the succeeding stage. By thus alternating subsets previously forming a single data stream, it is possible to utilize to the fullest extent the storage and computational facilities of each of the ordered stages.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING These and other features and objects of the present invention will be described in greater detail in connection with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention when read with the accompanying drawing wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a signal flow diagram illustrating the arithmetic operations performed in calculating the Fourier series coefficients corresponding to an 8- sample record.
FIG. 2 shows the general configuration for one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2A shows a circuit for deriving the input pairs required by the circuit of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3 is a representation of a prior art arithmetic unit for use in connection with the circuit of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 illustrates a representation of apparatus for performing the switching function required for the circuit of FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 depicts waveforms illustrating the position of the switches shown in the cascaded arrangement of FIG. 2.
FIG. 6 is a generalized stage for a cascade fast Fourier transform processor in accordance with the instant invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION As should be clear from the introductory remarks above, the instant invention represents an improvement over the systems disclosed in US. Pat. Nos. 3,544,775 issued Dec. 1, 1970 to G. D. Bergland et al., and 3,588,460 issued June 28, 1971 to R. A. Smith and that disclosed in US. Pat. 3,702,393 by the present inventor. Because of the close proximity, for background and other purposes, these patents and copending patent application are hereby incorporated by reference and should be considered as if set forth herein in their entirety.
FIG. 1 is a signal flow diagram summary of one version of the fast Fourier transform algorithm for an 8- point input sequence. As should be noted at the left of FIG. 1, the input samples are identified by the designation A i=O,l ,2,...,7. It should be understood, of course, that in the general case the number of samples or values in the input sequence may be any number N which may be represented as the product of two integers. For most practical cases thus far realized, however, N has been selected to be an integer power of 2, i.e., N=2"', where m is an integer.
The outputs shown in FIG. 1 at the right represent the Fourier series coefficients corresponding to the input sequence A Each of the arrows in the signal flow diagram in FIG. 1 has associated with it a term representing a power of W. It should be understood that, as in the FFT literature generally, W exp(21rj/N), l.
FIG. 2 shows a typical FFT configuration in accordance with the instant invention for performing the fast Fourier transform of the input sequence A As is common with F FT processors in the prior art for processing a sequence of 2" samples, there are m stages. Each stage necessarily includes an arithmetic unit represented by the designation 100-1', 1' 1,2,3 as shown in FIG. 2. Except for the first stage which will be discussed in more detail below, each stage includes a pair of delay units 110-i and Ill-i, i 2,3. Finally, each stage includes a switch 115-1', 1' 2,3. As should be clear from the prior art and the interconnection shown in FIG. 2, signals processed by a first stage are selectively delayed and are passed to the immediately succeeding stage.
The input sequence to the first stage for the case of an S-sample input sequence is, as shown in FIG. 2, bifurcated into two subsequences. Thus the first 4 samples 14 -14 appear on the top input lead 120 to arithmetic unit -1, while the last 4 input samples A,-A- appear on the lower input lead 121 to arithmetic unit 100-1. As in the system described in US. patent 3,702,393, these 4-sample subsequences are presented to arithmetic unit 100-1 in synchronized pairs. In the system of FIG. 2 this pairing is such that A and A, are presented simultaneously, as are A, and A etc.
Since arithmetic units 100-1 are arranged to operate on signal pairs, the effective input rate may be doubled for a given arithmetic unit as compared to the system described in the Bergland et al patent, supra. Thus, if an input sequence is applied at a rate of 2R samples/sec to an input terminal as shown in FIG. 2A, it is possible to derive the appropriate sample pairs at the output terminals at the rate of R pairs of samples per second.
All that is required is that the samples appearing on input lead 210 in FIG. 2A be alternately switched to leads 215 and 216 for periods of 4/2R 2/R seconds. Thus sequences of 4 samples are alternately entered into one of the shift registers 220 and 221. These are entered in serial form. Shift register 220 is selected first in each 8-sample sequence. After it has received the samples A,,-A switch 225 connects the input lead 210 to permit the next four samples A,-A; to be entered into shift register 22]. When this is complete, shift registers 220 and 221 are cleared by parallel transferring their contents to respective shift registers 230 and 240. Then these samples are shifted out on leads 120 and 121 at the rate of R sample pairs per second. While this latter shifting is taking place, the shift registers 220 and 221 are filled with new data and the process repeats. Other techniques and apparatus for deriving signal pairs and/or buffering may, of course, be used where appropriate.
FIG. 3 shows the familiar butterfly" configuration for performing the complex arithmetic operations implied by the signal flowchart in FIG. 1. In particular, the circuit of FIG. 3 is shown to receive on input lines 301 and 302 corresponding complex-valued signals. It should be understood, of course, that for some cases at least, the signals applied on leads 301 and 302 may, in part or whole, be signals representing numbers having only a real part, i.e., the values may be real values.
In any event, the lower input signal appearing on lead 302 is operated on by multiplier 303 to form on lead 306 a signal representing the complex product of the input signal on lead 302 with the appropriate complex phasor signal W exp(21rjk/N) expUdw). The resulting product from multiplier 303 is then applied to both of the adders 304 and 305. In the adder 304 the complex algebraic sum of the signal appearing on lead 301 with the product formed on lead 306 is formed and delivered on lead 307. Similarly, the complex algebraic difference between the signal appearing on lead 301 and that appearing on lead 306 is formed at adder 305 and supplied to lead 308.
In the case of the first stage in the circuit of FIG. 2, the output leads 307 and 308 correspond respectively to the output leads I07 and 108 from arithmetic unit 100-1. The complex results appearing on lead 107 are delivered directly to switch 115-2, as shown in FIG. 2. The signals appearing on lead 108, on the other hand, are caused to be passed through a delay unit 110-2 having a delay equal to two input sample pairs. Switch 1 15-2, which may assume the form shown in FIG. 4, is caused to alternate between its upper position and its lower position in a manner prescribed by a control signal of the form shown by the upper waveform in FIG. 5. Thus during the period that input sample pairs A. and A,, and A, and A,-, are applied at the input terminals 120 and 121, switch 115-2 is arranged to be in its upper position. During the period that sample pairs A and A and A and A- are applied on input leads 120 and 121, switch 115-2 is in its lower position. In FIG. 5, the upper (high) value for the waveforms indicates that the upper position for switch 115-i is achieved and a low value indicates the lower position for switch 115- i. The effect of alternating the position of switch 115-2 in the manner illustrated is to cause successive pairs of results appearing on leads 107 and 108 in FIG. 2 to experience variable delays by having either the upper one of the pair pass through delay unit 111-2 or to pass directly to input lead 151 to arithmetic unit 100-2.
In arithmetic unit 100-2 the signals appearing in pairs on lead 150 and 151 are operated on in the same manner as were the inputs to complex arithmetic unit 100-1. The output leads from arithmetic unit 100-2 appear on leads I60 and 161. The process of delaying and selecting is then repeated by delay units 110-3 and 111-3 and switch 115-3. However, the delays are of a duration equal to one input sample pair. Further, the switch 115-3 is alternated between its upper and lower position at the rate of R times per second, as indicated by the lower waveform in FIG. 5.
The result of the selective delaying by delay units 110-3 and 111-3 is to present sample pairs on the input leads 170 and 171 to arithmetic unit 100-3. In arithmetic unit 100-3 the arithmetic operations performed in the previous arithmetic units are repeated, the operands being the signals appearing on leads 170 and 171. The output signals appearing on leads 180 and 181 are the desired Fourier coefficients for the input sequence A, presented on leads 120 and 121.
As can be seen from the above description and a detailed tracing of signal pairs through the circuit of FIG. 2, and by referring to the above-cited US. Pat. No. 3,702,393, after an initial start-up period, each complex arithmetic unit 100-i in FIG. 2 is effective during each input sample pair period to generate corresponding output pairs on its output leads. Similarly, delay units 100-1' and 111-! store data at all times. That is, there is no period during which arithmetic units 100-i and delay units 110-1 and l11-i are inactive or operating at less than their designed capacity. In short, the circuit of FIG. 2 is 100 percent efficient in the use of hardware elements. Unlike the circuits appearing in U.S. Pat. No. 3,544,775 and elsewhere there is not required waiting for an input to be supplied at an input terminal to a multiplier or adder; the data are presented at the appropriate input terminals at precisely the time that the unit (arithmetic or delay) is prepared to operate on them. Further, unlike the system described in US. patent No. 3,588,460, it is not required that two independent data sequences be provided at the input terminals. Finally, unlike the system described in US. Pat. No. 3,702,393 by the instant inventor, no prescrambling of the input data sequence in digits-reversed order is required.
Although the above-described illustrative embodiment was effective to perfonn the fast Fourier transform of a data sequence including 8 samples. it should be clear from prior teachings that the configuration shown in FIG. 2 may be adapted to accommodate processing of sequences of signals of any length, N, where N 2'". All that need be supplied are m stages of the type shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 6 shows the generalized configuration for a percent efficient cascade FFT processor for an arbitrary value of m.
The overall configuration of the generalized stage of FIG. 6 is at once apparent. Thus a pair of delay units 600-i and 601-i are effective for delaying signals impressed on leads 602-1 and 603-! under the control of double pole switch 605-1' to generate selectively delayed pairs of signals on leads 606-1' and 607-1. These pairs of signals are then operated on in the abovedescribed fashion to produce corresponding output signals on leads 608-i and 609-1. The complex arithmetic unit is represented in FIG. 6 by the designation 610-1. At the ith stage, delay units 600-1" and 601-i provide a delay equal to 2"" Similarly, switch 605-i is in its upper and lower position for alternate ones of 2""" input sample pairs.
The first stage of any cascade processor in accordance with the present invention may be degenerate in the same sense as the first stage of the circuit of FIGv 2, i.e., it need not include delay units such as 600-1' and 601-1. nor a switch 605-i as shown in FIG. 6. Further it is clear that a sufficiently fast arithmetic unit may be timeshared between a plurality of stages in the manner described in US. Patent 3,702,393.
It should be recognized that, because no prescrambling was effected prior to processing in accordance with the instant teachings, the output results (e.g., x,- in FIG. 1) appears in digits reversed order. While this may be a disadvantage for some applications, it is often found to be simpler to perform an *unscrambling" at the output of a processor than at the input, especially when record overlap is incorporated as described in the above-cited patent application by F. W. Thies. Further, some configurations advantageously employ the scrambled results to represent an input for subsequent FFT processing. See OLeary, Nonrecursive Digital Filtering Using Cascade Fast Fourier Transformers," IEEE Trans. on Audio Electroacoustics, June 1970, pp.
The techniques for adapting an FFT processor to perform processing for a plurality of input channels disclosed in the above-cited US. Pat. No. 3,702,393, may also be used in connection with the presently disclosed embodiments.
Other modifications and extensions within the spirit and scope of the appended claims will occur to those skilled in the art.
What is claimed is:
1. A fast Fourier transform processor for forming Fourier coefficient signals corresponding to consecutive N-sample records of a single sequence of ordered input samples, each sample appearing during a respective consecutive fixed I/ZR-second interval of time, R being a constant value, comprising a plurality of ordered cascaded processing stages A. the first of which stages comprises 1. an arithmetic unit having first and second input terminals and first and second output terminals for generating at said output terminals during successive fixed l/R-second intervals of time pairs of output signals representing the sum and difference of a first product signal and a signal applied at said first input terminal, said first product signal representing the product of a signal apnals corresponding to the sum and difference of a second product signal and a signal applied at said pair of input terminals and selectively de layed by said network, said second product signal representing the product of a predetermined weighting factor and another signal applied at said pair of input terminals and selectively delayed by said network.
2. The processor of claim 1 wherein said network comprises first and second serial delay means and a switch for selectively connecting said delay means between said input terminals and said arithmetic means.
3. The processor of claim 2 wherein at the ith of said stages, i= 2, 3, m, m log N,
said first and second delay means each comprises min-als, said pairs each including a selected sam- 0 ple from the first half of one of said N-sample records of input samples and a uniquely corresponding sample from the second half of said one of said N-sample records of input samples,
B. each stage after the first comprising l. a pair of input terminals,
2. a pair of output terminals,
3. a network for selectively delaying signals applied at said input terminals.
4. arithmetic means for forming output pairs of sigmeans for delaying selected output signals from the (i l)th stage by an amount equal to 2" sample
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Cardiff: South Africa skipper AB de Villiers was a relieved man after his side secured a semifinal berth in the Champions Trophy as this time his side did not fail in reading correctly the Duckworth/Lewis sheet for rain-affected fixtures.
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INTRODUCTION: Plastic bronchitis is characterized by inspissated casts in the bronchial tree. We describe a patient with plastic bronchitis and underlying pulmonary and intestinal lymphangiectasia.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 14-year-old male with history of mild persistent asthma presented with coughing up stringy cheese-like-material (figure 1) for the past few months. He had three episodes of pneumonia in the previous year with progressive orthopnea and decreased exercise tolerance. He had decreased breath sounds in right lung base and expiratory rhonchi. Pulmonary function tests showed hyperinflation with decreased flow rates. Chest X ray showed increased opacities of right lung base. High resolution CT scan showed intra-bronchial casts, ground glass opacification with "crazy paving pattern" (figure2) in right lung base. Sweat chloride test, echocardiogram, surfactant protein levels and rheumatologic work up were normal. Bronchoscopy revealed thick mucus strands with milky lavage fluid. Broncho-alveolar-lavage cultures and Periodic Acid Schiff stain were negative. Presence of lymphopenia, hypo-albuminemia, low immunoglobulin levels, and elevated stool alpha-1-antitrypsin suggested protein-losing-enteropathy. He required multiple emergent bronchoscopies to relieve his casts. He subsequently developed right-sided chylothorax. Lung biopsy showed dilated, muscularized lymphatics. Small bowel biopsy showed intestinal lymphangiectasia. Pedal lympho-scintigraphy suggested obstruction of lymphatic pathway. He was treated with airways clearance, chest vest, inhaled steroids, inhaled mucomyst, prophylactic antibiotics, azithromycin and monthly immunoglobulins. He was admitted for prolonged chest tube drainage, bowel rest and Octeotride infusion. However, chylothorax persisted and surgical ligation of thoracic duct with talc pleurodesis was performed. He was transitioned to a low fat diet. He has been doing well for the past year with occasional exacerbations but no further hospitalizations.
DISCUSSION: Primary pulmonary lymphangiectasia is a developmental anomaly of lymphatic vessels of unknown etiology that usually presents in the neonatal period but can present later in life(1). Bronchial casts are typically inflammatory (asthma, cystic fibrosis) or non-inflammatory (structural heart disease, sickle cell disease). Reports of chylous casts secondary to lymphatic disorder are extremely rare(2).
CONCLUSIONS: A high index of suspicion is warranted in the diagnosis of lymphatic disorders.
Reference #1: 1. Esther CR Jr et al. Pulmonary Lymphangiectasia: Diagnosis and Clinical Course. Pediatric Pulmonology 2004; Oct;38(4):308-13
Reference #2: 2. Madsen P et al. Plastic bronchitis: new insights and a classification scheme. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2005 Dec;6(4):292-300
DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Aliva De, Dean Anselmo, Quin Liu, Peck Ong, Thomas Keens
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