Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge

Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early...

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Veröffentlicht in:Lung India 2016-09, Vol.33 (5), p.550-552
Hauptverfasser: Gaspar, Balan, Agarwal, Ritesh, Gupta, Kirti, Shivaprakash, M
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early can be appropriately treated and thus can be life-saving. Here, we describe a similar case which was diagnosed only at autopsy.
ISSN:0970-2113
0974-598X
DOI:10.4103/0970-2113.188981