Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever

We report a case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with sever dengue fever. She started showing recovery from dengue fever with medical management. On day 6 of admission, she had leukocytosis, altered mental sensorium, and hemoptysis. Chest tomography showed air space consolidation with multiple nod...

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Autores principales: Nasa, Prashant, Yadav, Rohit, Nagrani, S.K., Raina, Sanjay, Gupta, Ankur, Jain, Shakti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24914263
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.132505
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Sumario:We report a case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with sever dengue fever. She started showing recovery from dengue fever with medical management. On day 6 of admission, she had leukocytosis, altered mental sensorium, and hemoptysis. Chest tomography showed air space consolidation with multiple nodules in the left upper and middle lobe sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage cultures were positive for Aspergillus flavus. The patient showed improvement with voriconazole and therapy was continued for 6 weeks.

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