Eosinophilic Pleural Effusion Complicating Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
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Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is primarily a disease of patients with cystic fibrosis or asthma, who typically present with bronchial obstruction, fever, malaise, and expectoration of mucus plugs. We report a case of a young man with a history of asthma who presented with cough, left-sided pleuritic chest pain and was found to have lobar atelectasis and an eosinophilic, empyematous pleural effusion. Bronchoscopy and sputum cultures grew Aspergillus fumigatus , and testing confirmed strong allergic response to Received: September 27, 2010 Accepted after revision: December 13, 2010 Published online: February 10, 2011 Tomasz J. Kuzniar, MD, PhD Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine NorthShore University HealthSystem 2650 Ridge Avenue, Suite 5301, Evanston, IL 60201 (USA) Tel. +1 847 57
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تاریخ انتشار 2011