A one year study of the efficacy of the antifungal agent ketoconazole in non-invasive pulmonary aspergillosis was carried out. Ten patients, seven with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and three with mycetoma, were studied. They were randomly allocated to receive 400 mg daily or placebo orally in a double blind fashion. In the treated group (n = 6), concentrations of serum IgG specific f...

a 32-year-old end stage renal disease (esrd) woman was scheduled for transplantation. also, she has had fever of unknown origin (fuo), rise of esr and ppd>22 mm. therefore treatment with isoniazid and rifampin was started three months prior to transplantation. she developed allograft dysfunction on week after transplantation. she received a few course pulse therapy (methyl prednisolone), antily...

Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis (CNPA) is a rare form of pulmonary aspergillosis. The radiological findings in CNPA are very diverse. We present a mildly imunosuppresive, elderly 71-year-old woman with the diagnosis of chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis presenting as transient migratory thoracic mass.

Primary laryngeal aspergillosis in immunocompetent patients is rare. We describe a case of a 59-year-old woman with laryngeal aspergillosis thought to be secondary to long-term inhaled fluticasone therapy. Laryngeal aspergillosis may be an underrecognized complication of inhaled corticosteroid therapy.

Aspergillus is a ubiquitous fungus and can cause many levels of disease severity. Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis is a rare disease and few cases have been reported in Korea. We experienced a case of pleural aspergillosis that was treated successfully with medical and surgical interventions. The 52-year-old man who was diagnosed with chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis underwent surgi...

introduction: atypical infratemporal fossa infections are rare and potentially fatal.   case report: a case of an aspergillosis localized in the infratemporal fossa and another case of tuberculosis of the infratemporal fossa originating from the maxillary sinus, is described. the first patient was immunocompromised and showed symptoms of facial numbness; whereas the other was an immunocompetent...

Ann Saudi Med 29(1) January-February 2009 www.saudiannals.net 53 Pulmonary aspergillosis frequently complicates existing pulmonary cavity, which is commonly due to tuberculosis.1-6 Pulmonary aspergillosis has also been reported, though rarely, in pulmonary cavities as a consequence of the removal of a hydatid cyst.7-9 We report a case with active pulmonary hydatid disease that was co-infected w...

Aspergillosis involving central nervous system (CNS) is known to occur frequently in the immunocompromised individual owing to increased invasive feature of the disease and decreased host defense capacity(1, 2). The common pathway of CNS aspergillosis is hematogenous dissemination usually from lung or continuous extension from adjacent structures such as sinonasal cavity (3, 4). Therefore, the ...

Aspergillosis of the central nervous system is a rare disease, especially if the patient's immune system is not compromised. The authors report three cases of cerebral aspergillosis in the immunocompetent state: a rhinocerebral form in a diabetic patient, a direct extension from chronic Aspergillus otitis media, and a postoperative Aspergillus brain abscess after brain tumor surgery. In spite o...