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
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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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author Nasa, Prashant
Yadav, Rohit
Nagrani, S.K.
Raina, Sanjay
Gupta, Ankur
Jain, Shakti
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description 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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spelling pubmed-40476962014-06-09 Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever Nasa, Prashant Yadav, Rohit Nagrani, S.K. Raina, Sanjay Gupta, Ankur Jain, Shakti Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4047696/ /pubmed/24914263 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.132505 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nasa, Prashant
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Gupta, Ankur
Jain, Shakti
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title_full Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title_fullStr Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title_full_unstemmed Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title_short Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
title_sort invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
topic Case Report
url 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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