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Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis

Histoplasmosis involving mediastinum is very rare which can present as a mediastinal mass or fibrosing mediastinitis. Fibrosing mediastinitis can be life-threatening if left untreated due to the involvement of the surrounding visceral and vascular structures. We present an interesting case of fibros...

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Autores principales: Khalid, Muhammad, Khan, Imran, Rahman, Zia, Alazzeh, Ahmad, Youssef, Dima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946500
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2532
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author Khalid, Muhammad
Khan, Imran
Rahman, Zia
Alazzeh, Ahmad
Youssef, Dima
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description Histoplasmosis involving mediastinum is very rare which can present as a mediastinal mass or fibrosing mediastinitis. Fibrosing mediastinitis can be life-threatening if left untreated due to the involvement of the surrounding visceral and vascular structures. We present an interesting case of fibrosing mediastinitis due to histoplasmosis presented with palpitations, chest pain and dyspnea. The patient had mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy with calcification on chest imaging. The patient was diagnosed on lymph node biopsy and treated with antifungals.
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spelling pubmed-60171592018-06-26 Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis Khalid, Muhammad Khan, Imran Rahman, Zia Alazzeh, Ahmad Youssef, Dima Cureus Internal Medicine Histoplasmosis involving mediastinum is very rare which can present as a mediastinal mass or fibrosing mediastinitis. Fibrosing mediastinitis can be life-threatening if left untreated due to the involvement of the surrounding visceral and vascular structures. We present an interesting case of fibrosing mediastinitis due to histoplasmosis presented with palpitations, chest pain and dyspnea. The patient had mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy with calcification on chest imaging. The patient was diagnosed on lymph node biopsy and treated with antifungals. Cureus 2018-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6017159/ /pubmed/29946500 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2532 Text en Copyright © 2018, Khalid et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khalid, Muhammad
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Rahman, Zia
Alazzeh, Ahmad
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Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis
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title_full Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis
title_fullStr Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis
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title_short Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Uncommon Life-threatening Complication of Histoplasmosis
title_sort fibrosing mediastinitis: uncommon life-threatening complication of histoplasmosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6017159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946500
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2532
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