Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management

Blastomycosis is an uncommon granulomatous disease caused by infection with thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Blastomyces. Although pulmonary infections from Blastomyces dermatitidis are uncommon, it is important to understand the geographical distribution, presentation, diagnosis, and manageme...

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Autores principales: Gandam Venkata, Shyam kiran, Gieswein, Joel, Bhuram, Sai Sruthi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923279
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9686
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author Gandam Venkata, Shyam kiran
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description Blastomycosis is an uncommon granulomatous disease caused by infection with thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Blastomyces. Although pulmonary infections from Blastomyces dermatitidis are uncommon, it is important to understand the geographical distribution, presentation, diagnosis, and management of treating this condition. We report a case of fulminant blastomycosis after high inoculum inhalation, with involvement of the prostate on presentation, which progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-74861102020-09-12 Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management Gandam Venkata, Shyam kiran Gieswein, Joel Bhuram, Sai Sruthi Cureus Infectious Disease Blastomycosis is an uncommon granulomatous disease caused by infection with thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Blastomyces. Although pulmonary infections from Blastomyces dermatitidis are uncommon, it is important to understand the geographical distribution, presentation, diagnosis, and management of treating this condition. We report a case of fulminant blastomycosis after high inoculum inhalation, with involvement of the prostate on presentation, which progressed to acute respiratory distress syndrome. Cureus 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7486110/ /pubmed/32923279 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9686 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gandam Venkata 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.
spellingShingle Infectious Disease
Gandam Venkata, Shyam kiran
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Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title_full Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title_fullStr Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title_full_unstemmed Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title_short Varied Presentation of Fulminant Blastomycosis with Prostatitis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Patient With High Inoculum Inhalation: A Review of Diagnosis and Management
title_sort varied presentation of fulminant blastomycosis with prostatitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient with high inoculum inhalation: a review of diagnosis and management
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7486110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923279
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9686
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