Pulmonary Scedosporium apiospermum Infection with Pulmonary Tumorlet in an Immunocompetent Patient

Scedosporium apiospermum is an opportunistic fungus that can cause various types of infections, including localized infections and life-threatening disseminated infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Treatment is especially challenging due to its multidrug resistance. We herein repo...

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Autores principales: Motokawa, Nana, Miyazaki, Taiga, Hara, Atsuko, Fukuda, Yuichi, Morino, Shigeyuki, Nakamura, Hiroaki, Iwasaki, Keisuke, Soda, Hiroshi, Izumikawa, Koichi, Yanagihara, Katsunori, Ohno, Hideaki, Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu, Kohno, Shigeru, Mukae, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6306550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101932
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1239-18
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Sumario:Scedosporium apiospermum is an opportunistic fungus that can cause various types of infections, including localized infections and life-threatening disseminated infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Treatment is especially challenging due to its multidrug resistance. We herein report the case of a 73-year-old woman who was non-immunocompromised but developed S. apiospermum lung infection and a pulmonary tumorlet. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the coexistence of pulmonary S. apiospermum infection and tumorlet. The lung lesion was successfully treated by surgical excision without any antifungal agents, and no recurrence of the tumorlet or S. apiospermum infection has occurred.

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