Invasive aspergillosis in a patient with end stage renal disease

Invasive aspergillosis caused by A. Fumigatus, almost occurs in immunocompromised hosts and has a poor prognosis. We report a case of invasive Aspergillosis in a 15-year-old boy with ESRD. He was initially diagnosed as lobar pneumonia and peritonitis. When he complained for lower extremity weakness...

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Autores principales: Cicek, Neslihan, Yildiz, Nurdan, Kadayifci, Eda Kepenekli, Gokce, Ibrahim, Alpay, Harika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.06.006
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author Cicek, Neslihan
Yildiz, Nurdan
Kadayifci, Eda Kepenekli
Gokce, Ibrahim
Alpay, Harika
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description Invasive aspergillosis caused by A. Fumigatus, almost occurs in immunocompromised hosts and has a poor prognosis. We report a case of invasive Aspergillosis in a 15-year-old boy with ESRD. He was initially diagnosed as lobar pneumonia and peritonitis. When he complained for lower extremity weakness and had convulsions, a solid mass originated from right lung compresses the spinal cord and intracranial hemorrhagic abscesses were found on MRI. The biopsy specimen showed hypae of aspergillus-spp and he died on 12th day.
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spelling pubmed-55242942017-07-31 Invasive aspergillosis in a patient with end stage renal disease Cicek, Neslihan Yildiz, Nurdan Kadayifci, Eda Kepenekli Gokce, Ibrahim Alpay, Harika Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Invasive aspergillosis caused by A. Fumigatus, almost occurs in immunocompromised hosts and has a poor prognosis. We report a case of invasive Aspergillosis in a 15-year-old boy with ESRD. He was initially diagnosed as lobar pneumonia and peritonitis. When he complained for lower extremity weakness and had convulsions, a solid mass originated from right lung compresses the spinal cord and intracranial hemorrhagic abscesses were found on MRI. The biopsy specimen showed hypae of aspergillus-spp and he died on 12th day. Elsevier 2017-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5524294/ /pubmed/28761803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.06.006 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524294/
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