Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is usually caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. The six cases from the Sudan reported here were due to Aspergillus flavus. Three of the patients had primary invasive disease, one had Aspergillus mycetoma in a pre-existing lung cavity, and two had allergic aspergillosis. A special feature of the invasive disease was the clinical and radiographic simulation of malignanc...

Dr. Bow has written a useful article summarizing many aspects of the present state of risk factors, prophylaxis, and prevention of invasive aspergillosis with additional comments about treatment. To amplify some of his points, I will look back over the last 5 years from the perspective of an article I wrote in 1995 for the Annales de Medecine Interne (the French equivalent to the Annals of Inte...

background invasive aspergillosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients. thisn infection is caused by aspergillus, a hyaline mold, which is the etiologic agent for many different manifestations. patient a 63 year old diabetic housewife woman, living in northern iran, presented with the history of right eye ptosis after a mild head trauma since about 3 weeks ag...

conclusions hrct is helpful in the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with lung-heart transplant. methods we reviewed the data of lung-heart transplant recipients within a 5 year period at our center. the inclusion criterion was confirmed invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. demographic, clinical, radiologic and laboratory characteristics of the patients were retrieved from ...

trauma. In this report, we present a remarkable case of multiple lung and brain lesions caused by aspergillosis after a falling incident. A 54-year-old male was admitted with multiple trauma (brain contusion, aspiration pneumonitis with pulmonary contusion, right humerus fracture and right scapular fracture) due to a 6-m fall and aspiration of slops. In view of aspiration pneumonitis (Figure 1,...

BACKGROUND Aspergillus is a common cause of invasive mycosis, especially in immunocompromised or immunosuppressed individuals. AIMS To study the incidence of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and evaluate the predisposing factors and clinico-pathological manifestations. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Retrospective analysis of autopsy material from a tertiary care hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS All au...

BACKGROUND To report a 45 year old lady presenting with proximal jejunal gangrene due to invasive Aspergillosis. The patient was undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for advance carcinoma of breast (Stage IV). METHODS The patient was referred to our surgical emergency for acute abdominal symptoms for 6 hours. Histopathology revealed bowel wall necrosis and vascular invasion by Aspergillus Fumigat...

The role of Aspergillus species as a pathogen in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has not been clearly defined. From 1984 to 1989, more than 2,000 AIDS patients were seen at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York. Aspergillus was isolated in ten patients; seven had invasive disease and three had noninvasive disease. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) was diagnosed in six patients and...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis mimicking lung cancer with lung to lung metastases in ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone syndrome (EAS). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 60-year-old man suffering from hypokalemic alkalosis, hypertension and limbs paralysis was referred to our hospital. EAS caused by malignancy of lung was highly suspected due to multipl...

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis usually occurs in severely immunocompromised or neutropenic patients. Six patients with invasive aspergillosis are described whose only defence impairment was underlying lung disease and corticosteroid treatment. Cough, fever, and sputum production were the usual reasons for presentation and four patients developed the sepsis syndrome. Radiographic findings incl...