INTRODUCTION Pulmonary aspergillosis has variable course of illness, severity and outcomes depending on underlying conditions. There is limited data available on the clinical manifestations and outcome of pulmonary aspergillosis from Pakistan. METHODS To determine the clinical manifestations and outcome of pulmonary aspergillosis in a tertiary care hospital a retrospective study was conducted...

OBJECTIVE Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) occurs in cases of atopic asthma and may result in important lung disease. Early diagnosis is essential as this disease is responsive to steroids. However, while asthma is common, ABPA is infrequently diagnosed. CT allows precision in the diagnosis of central bronchiectasis (which is virtually pathognomonic of ABPA) and may enable earlier...

Nosocomial invasive aspergillosis can cause life-threatening infections among immunosuppressed patients and is thought to be primarily airborne. Despite the use of appropriate hospital air filtration systems, however, the incidence of this infection continues to increase. In this article, we present our hypothesis, which is that nosocomial aspergillosis can be airborne from a water source in th...

We describe a patient with rapidly progressive pneumonia and a high level of serum lactate dehydrogenase, in whom postmortem study revealed the presence of a diffuse, small and large-cell multicentric non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, together with an invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Aspergillosis is rare as a presenting feature of a lymphoproliferative disease; only one previous case has been reported ...

Invasive aspergillosis is a life-threatening fungal infection, especially in immunocompromised patients. Pulmonary aspergillosis is the most common type of the infection, while urinary tract infection is relatively rare. Here, we describe a case of a 46-year-old man with chronic renal disease presenting with intermittent abdominal pain. The diagnosis of aspergillosis was established by patholog...

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic announced by the World Health Organization in March 2020 has brought new tasks to medical community that require immediate solutions. Recent studies have shown invasive aspergillosis associated with infection caused COVID-19 often aggravates course of disease and leads death. article presents a clinical case acute patient chronic somatic pathology but n...

Although the diagnostic significance of isolating Aspergillus spp. from respiratory cultures has been studied in immunocompromised hosts with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), little is known of such infections in immunocompetent patients with other forms of aspergillosis. In this study of adult pneumology ward patients, we examined the association between Aspergillus spp. and disease pre...

Filamentous fungi (moulds) are ubiquitous soil inhabitants whose conidia are inhaled into the respiratory tract, where they may cause lifethreatening infections. Among these infections is invasive aspergillosis, which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the severely immunocompromised. Risk factors for invasive aspergillosis include prolonged and severe neutropenia, hematopoietic stem...

Aspergillus disease affects a broad patient population, from patients with asthma to immunocompromised patients. Azole resistance has been increasingly reported in both clinical and environmental Aspergillus strains. The prevalence and clinical impact of azole resistance in different patient populations are currently unclear. This 1-year prospective multicenter cohort study aimed to provide det...

Key-words Disease name and included diseases Definition Clinical presentation of the diseases Risk factors for Aspergillosis infections Diagnosis Epidemiology Treatment Surgical treatment References Abstract Aspergillosis is a large spectrum of fungal diseases, which primarily affect the lungs and are caused by members of the genus Aspergillus. A. fumigatus seems to be the most frequent species...