An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis

Predisposing factors that lead to blastomycosis remain unknown, although like other fungal infections, blastomycosis is an opportunistic infection. Here, we report on an unusual presentation in a Hmong woman with preexisting liver disease. This case highlights genetic and medical factors that may in...

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Autores principales: Hernandez, Leilani, Jha, Pinky, Sohnle, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8459804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34589317
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17406
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description Predisposing factors that lead to blastomycosis remain unknown, although like other fungal infections, blastomycosis is an opportunistic infection. Here, we report on an unusual presentation in a Hmong woman with preexisting liver disease. This case highlights genetic and medical factors that may increase susceptibility to blastomycosis.
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spelling pubmed-84598042021-09-28 An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis Hernandez, Leilani Jha, Pinky Sohnle, Peter Cureus Internal Medicine Predisposing factors that lead to blastomycosis remain unknown, although like other fungal infections, blastomycosis is an opportunistic infection. Here, we report on an unusual presentation in a Hmong woman with preexisting liver disease. This case highlights genetic and medical factors that may increase susceptibility to blastomycosis. Cureus 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8459804/ /pubmed/34589317 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17406 Text en Copyright © 2021, Hernandez et al. https://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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title An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis
title_full An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis
title_short An Unusual Case of Blastomycosis and Severe Lung Necrosis in a Hmong Woman With Preexisting Liver Cirrhosis
title_sort unusual case of blastomycosis and severe lung necrosis in a hmong woman with preexisting liver cirrhosis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8459804/
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