Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge

Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early...

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Autores principales: Gaspar, Balan Louis, Agarwal, Ritesh, Gupta, Kirti, Shivaprakash, M R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27625454
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.188981
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author Gaspar, Balan Louis
Agarwal, Ritesh
Gupta, Kirti
Shivaprakash, M R
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description Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early can be appropriately treated and thus can be life-saving. Here, we describe a similar case which was diagnosed only at autopsy.
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spelling pubmed-50063402016-09-14 Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge Gaspar, Balan Louis Agarwal, Ritesh Gupta, Kirti Shivaprakash, M R Lung India Case Report Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early can be appropriately treated and thus can be life-saving. Here, we describe a similar case which was diagnosed only at autopsy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5006340/ /pubmed/27625454 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.188981 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Chest Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title_full Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title_fullStr Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title_full_unstemmed Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title_short Aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
title_sort aspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: a diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27625454
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.188981
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