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, empyema...

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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, empyema...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, known to be associated with cystic fibrosis in older patients, occurred in 7 young atopic children with cystic fibrosis. The diagnosis was suggested by the onset of, or the increase in, asthmatic symptoms accompanied by major chest x-ray changes ranging from total collapse of a lung or lobe to extensive but changing areas of consolidation. Each of the ch...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a devastating clinical disease that results from an aggressive pulmonary allergic response to the antigens released by colonizing Aspergillus fumigatus (A. fumigatus) in the respiratory system. Many of the allergic features of clinical ABPA have been reproduced in murine models, thereby facilitating a detailed analysis of the inflammatory and im...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA), an asthmatic disease, is caused primarily by hypersensitivity to Aspergillus species. ABPA is rarely observed in the absence of asthma, which is, in fact, the principle criterion for its diagnosis. Here, we report the case of a 36-yr-old woman without a history of bronchial asthma, who manifested a localized pneumonic consolidation, coupled with b...

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is the result of hypersensitivity to Aspergillus antigens in patients with long-standing atopic asthma. In the present study mycelial and culture filtrate antigens from Aspergillus fumigatus cultures isolated from diverse sources were tested against sera of 10 ABPA patients and 10 control individuals by an ELISA methodology. The results indicate hi...

: Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA) is an allergic hypersensitivity reaction to the ubiquitous fungus Aspergillus that can cause inflammation and damage respiratory system. This condition predominantly occurs in individuals with long-standing airway disease, such as bronchial asthma or cystic fibrosis. While Acid-fast bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes (TB). ABPA TB coexist ...