Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report

It is not yet known, if critically ill COVID-19 patients are prone to fungal infections. We report a 69-year-old patient without typical risk factors for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), who developed IPA two weeks after onset of symptoms. Our report shows that IPA may occur in critically ill...

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Autores principales: Prattes, Juergen, Valentin, Thomas, Hoenigl, Martin, Talakic, Emina, Reisinger, Alexander C., Eller, Philipp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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CAPA Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.001
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author Prattes, Juergen
Valentin, Thomas
Hoenigl, Martin
Talakic, Emina
Reisinger, Alexander C.
Eller, Philipp
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description It is not yet known, if critically ill COVID-19 patients are prone to fungal infections. We report a 69-year-old patient without typical risk factors for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), who developed IPA two weeks after onset of symptoms. Our report shows that IPA may occur in critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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spelling pubmed-72116202020-05-11 Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report Prattes, Juergen Valentin, Thomas Hoenigl, Martin Talakic, Emina Reisinger, Alexander C. Eller, Philipp Med Mycol Case Rep CAPA Case Report It is not yet known, if critically ill COVID-19 patients are prone to fungal infections. We report a 69-year-old patient without typical risk factors for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), who developed IPA two weeks after onset of symptoms. Our report shows that IPA may occur in critically ill COVID-19 patients. Elsevier 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7211620/ /pubmed/32395423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.001 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) 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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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title_full Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title_fullStr Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title_full_unstemmed Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title_short Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating COVID-19 in the ICU - A case report
title_sort invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicating covid-19 in the icu - a case report
topic CAPA Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395423
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.001
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