Disseminated histoplasmosis in Britain.

Acute disseminated histoplasmosis of pulmonary origin probably contracted in Britain.

Histoplasmosis in any form is an unusual finding in Great Britain. The case described in this paper is that of a man with bilateral pulmonary histoplasmosis which terminated with an acute disseminated infection. It is believed to be an example of an indigenous British infection. Symmers (1956) made a critical analysis of the 15 cases of histoplasmosis reported in Great Britain up to 1956 and fo...

Subdural Empyema in Disseminated Histoplasmosis

A 34-year-old man presented with two episodes of generalized tonic–clonic seizures and fever for 1 day. Two months back, he was admitted with high grade fever, productive cough, cervical lymphadenopathy, left lower lobe consolidation, and multiple skin abscesses. The pus from the abscess was drained and the abscess wall histopathology revealed intracellular oval shaped fungal organisms with nar...

Disseminated CNS histoplasmosis.

Although an estimated 40 million Americans have been infected with Histoplasma capsulatum [1], CNS involvement is rare except in the disseminated form. Lesions of the CNS have been reported to occur in nearly one fourth of the documented cases of disseminated histoplasmosis [2], but only in a few cases has the infection solely involved the CNS [3, 4]. This article details the cranial CT and spi...

Disseminated histoplasmosis and its treatment.

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis masking disseminated histoplasmosis in AIDS.

Case presentation (Dr L Greene and Dr A L Pozniak) A 32 year old black African man was admitted from our emergency clinic complaining of right sided abdominal pain which was dull in nature with colicky exacerbations that had been present for 6 weeks. The pain had increased in severity over the preceding 3 days. The patient also reported watery diarrhoea and weight loss of 7 kg over the same per...