We report 5 cases of invasive aspergillosis occurring in severely immunosuppressed patients hospitalized with pandemic influenza A (H1N1). We suggest that infection with influenza A (H1N1) may predispose immunocompromised patients to develop invasive aspergillosis. Physicians should be aware of this potential association to allow early diagnosis and prompt treatment of aspergillosis.

Semiinvasive pulmonary aspergillosis is an indolent form of pulmonary aspergillosis, which is seen mainly in patients who are mildly immunocompromised with underlying chronic lung diseases. This syndrome is rare, and the available literature is based on case reports and small case series. We describe here a patient with a semiinvasive aspergillosis associated with a probable idiopathic pulmonar...

Disseminated aspergillosis is a known complication of neoplastic disease; however, it is usually associated with neoplasms of the hematopoietic or lymphoreticular systems or with immunosuppressed states. We describe the previously unreported association of disseminated aspergillosis and Cushing's syndrome secondary to a corticotropin-secreting oat cell carcinoma of the lung, and we review the c...

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis is a progressive debilitating disease with multiple underlying pulmonary diseases described. Here we report the association of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and long term marijuana smoking in 2 patients and review the literature related to invasive and allergic aspergillosis.

a 29-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) presented with palpitation and neck swelling. initial sonography showed an ill-defined hypoechoic lesion in the right thyroid gland, mentioning subacute thyroiditis. the patient received conservative care for one week. however, her neck swelling worsened and she complained of dyspnea. follow up sonography showed marked enlargement of b...

chronic granulomatous disease is an infrequent primary immunodeficiency characterized by defective intracellular killing of ingested microorganisms thereby making patients highly susceptible to recurrent lite threatening bacterial and fungal infections. in this study, we review the medical course of an 8 yr old girl with ar-cgd. she suffered from recurrent dermal and deep abscesses, retractable...

invasive aspergillosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among solid organ transplant recipients, especially in lung transplantations. diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis is one of the current challenges due to nonspecific clinical symptoms and broad differential diagnosis. definitive diagnosis usually requires invasive procedures, including bronchoscopy and ctguided biopsy

chronic granulomatous disease is an inherited defect in intracellular killing of ingested microorganisms characterized by recurrent life threatening bacterial and fungal infections including invasive aspergillosis in early childhood. we report  a  disseminated aspergillosis as  the  representative  of  adult  onset  chronic granulomatous disease without previous infection, with dramatic respons...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0865 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Cutaneous aspergillosis has been described as primary or secondary to haematogenous dissemination (1). Primary cutaneous aspergillosis usually follows local trauma and appears as a purplish oedematous lesion at the site of inoculation (2). We present here a rare case of primary c...

Chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis is one of the forms of pulmonary aspergillosis typically found in mildly immunocompromised patients. We report the case of a female patient with complaints of chronic productive cough, fever and asthenia. She reported previous corticosteroid use. Computed tomography of the chest revealed consolidation with interposed cavitation in the right upper lobe...