Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO

Invasive pulmonary aspsergillosis (IPA) is a well-known disease typically affecting severely immunocompromised patients. Recently, IPA has been described in a new group of patients such as those infected with influenza. In this report, we would like to present a case of pulmonary aspergillosis follo...

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Autores principales: Alobaid, Khaled, Alfoudri, Huda, Jeragh, Ahlam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31908911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.12.010
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author Alobaid, Khaled
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description Invasive pulmonary aspsergillosis (IPA) is a well-known disease typically affecting severely immunocompromised patients. Recently, IPA has been described in a new group of patients such as those infected with influenza. In this report, we would like to present a case of pulmonary aspergillosis following influenza infection for the first time in Kuwait, and raise awareness about such unrecognized threatening co-infection.
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spelling pubmed-69389552020-01-06 Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO Alobaid, Khaled Alfoudri, Huda Jeragh, Ahlam Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Invasive pulmonary aspsergillosis (IPA) is a well-known disease typically affecting severely immunocompromised patients. Recently, IPA has been described in a new group of patients such as those infected with influenza. In this report, we would like to present a case of pulmonary aspergillosis following influenza infection for the first time in Kuwait, and raise awareness about such unrecognized threatening co-infection. Elsevier 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6938955/ /pubmed/31908911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.12.010 Text en © 2019 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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Alobaid, Khaled
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Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title_full Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title_fullStr Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title_full_unstemmed Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title_short Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ECMO
title_sort influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient on ecmo
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31908911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.12.010
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