Laryngeal Manifestations of Paracoccidioidomycosis (South American Blastomycosis)

Laryngeal manifestations of paracoccidioidomycosis (South American blastomycosis).

OBJECTIVE To report clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and epidemiologic characteristics of laryngeal paracoccidioidomycosis. DESIGN Case series. SETTINGS Tertiary care institutional hospital. PATIENTS We reviewed the hospital records of 7 patients with laryngeal paracoccidioidomycosis diagnosed by histopathological examination. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Clinical manifestations of laryngeal...

North American blastomycosis.

N ORTH American blastomycosis (Gilchrist’s disease) is a granulomatous, infectious disease caused by the fungus, Blastomyces dermatitidis (Gilchrist and Stokes, 1898). The malady, in its cutaneous form, was first described by Gilchrist’ in 1894. A few years later, together with Stokes, he was able to isolate and culture the causative organism which he designated as B. dermatitibis.23 The first ...

North American blastomycosis.

Clinical Manifestations and Treatment of Blastomycosis.

The causal agents of blastomycosis, Blastomyces dermatitidis and Blastomyces gilchristii, belong to a group of thermally dimorphic fungi that can infect healthy and immunocompromised individuals. Following inhalation of mycelial fragments and spores into the lungs, Blastomyces spp convert into pathogenic yeast and evade host immune defenses to cause pneumonia and disseminated disease. The clini...

[Oral blastomycosis, laryngeal papillomatosis and esophageal tuberculosis].

Esophageal involvement is an extremely rare complication of tuberculosis even in countries with high prevalence of infection. We report the case of a 57 year-old hiv-seronegative patient with simultaneous diagnoses of oral blastomycosis and laryngeal papillomatosis. Both were confirmed by anatomopathological analysis. The esophageal biopsy revealed granulomatous esophagitis with necrosis and zi...