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Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis

BACKGROUND: Pericardial disease can be a manifestation of infection and imaging can have a role in its diagnosis. coccidioidomycosis endemic fungal infection has been more frequently reported over the past few decades. Other than case reports or series, there has been no systemic study evaluating pe...

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Autores principales: Madani, Mohammad H., Ghasemiesfe, Ahmadreza, Abdelhafez, Yasser G., Nardo, Lorenzo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9290292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35843935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07601-1
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author Madani, Mohammad H.
Ghasemiesfe, Ahmadreza
Abdelhafez, Yasser G.
Nardo, Lorenzo
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Ghasemiesfe, Ahmadreza
Abdelhafez, Yasser G.
Nardo, Lorenzo
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description BACKGROUND: Pericardial disease can be a manifestation of infection and imaging can have a role in its diagnosis. coccidioidomycosis endemic fungal infection has been more frequently reported over the past few decades. Other than case reports or series, there has been no systemic study evaluating pericardial imaging findings in patients with coccidioidomycosis to the best of our knowledge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate intrathoracic computed tomographic (CT) imaging abnormalities in patients with coccidioidal infection with specific emphasis on the pericardium. METHODS: Retrospective review of radiology reports and clinical chart review was performed to identify patients with coccidioidomycosis between January 2000 and September 2021 at our medical center. Diagnosis of infection was confirmed predominately with serology. Patients were excluded if a CT was not performed within 3 months of confirmed diagnosis date and if there was concomitant additional granulomatous or fungal infection. Chest CT was reviewed for pericardial and additional intrathoracic findings. RESULTS: The final retrospective cohort consisted of 37 patients. Imaging findings included lung nodules (N = 33/37), consolidation (N = 25/37), mediastinal or hilar lymphadenopathy (N = 20/37) and pleural effusions (N = 13/37). Eleven of 37 patients (30%) had either trace pericardial fluid (N = 3/37) or small pericardial effusions (N = 8/37). One patient had pericardial enhancement/thickening and history of pericardial tamponade. No other patient had clinical pericarditis or pericardial tamponade. Pericardial calcifications were not seen in any patient. Pericardial effusion was statistically associated with presence of pleural effusion as 9/13 patients with pleural effusion had pericardial effusion versus 2/26 patients without pleural effusion had pericardial effusion (p < 0.001). Otherwise patients with and without pericardial imaging findings were similar in terms of demographics, comorbidities and other imaging findings. CONCLUSION: Pulmonary parenchymal pathology is a common manifestation of coccidioidal infection. Most patients with coccidioidomycosis do not have pericardial imaging abnormalities on CT.
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spelling pubmed-92902922022-07-19 Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis Madani, Mohammad H. Ghasemiesfe, Ahmadreza Abdelhafez, Yasser G. Nardo, Lorenzo BMC Infect Dis Research BACKGROUND: Pericardial disease can be a manifestation of infection and imaging can have a role in its diagnosis. coccidioidomycosis endemic fungal infection has been more frequently reported over the past few decades. Other than case reports or series, there has been no systemic study evaluating pericardial imaging findings in patients with coccidioidomycosis to the best of our knowledge. The purpose of this study was to evaluate intrathoracic computed tomographic (CT) imaging abnormalities in patients with coccidioidal infection with specific emphasis on the pericardium. METHODS: Retrospective review of radiology reports and clinical chart review was performed to identify patients with coccidioidomycosis between January 2000 and September 2021 at our medical center. Diagnosis of infection was confirmed predominately with serology. Patients were excluded if a CT was not performed within 3 months of confirmed diagnosis date and if there was concomitant additional granulomatous or fungal infection. Chest CT was reviewed for pericardial and additional intrathoracic findings. RESULTS: The final retrospective cohort consisted of 37 patients. Imaging findings included lung nodules (N = 33/37), consolidation (N = 25/37), mediastinal or hilar lymphadenopathy (N = 20/37) and pleural effusions (N = 13/37). Eleven of 37 patients (30%) had either trace pericardial fluid (N = 3/37) or small pericardial effusions (N = 8/37). One patient had pericardial enhancement/thickening and history of pericardial tamponade. No other patient had clinical pericarditis or pericardial tamponade. Pericardial calcifications were not seen in any patient. Pericardial effusion was statistically associated with presence of pleural effusion as 9/13 patients with pleural effusion had pericardial effusion versus 2/26 patients without pleural effusion had pericardial effusion (p < 0.001). Otherwise patients with and without pericardial imaging findings were similar in terms of demographics, comorbidities and other imaging findings. CONCLUSION: Pulmonary parenchymal pathology is a common manifestation of coccidioidal infection. Most patients with coccidioidomycosis do not have pericardial imaging abnormalities on CT. BioMed Central 2022-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9290292/ /pubmed/35843935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07601-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Madani, Mohammad H.
Ghasemiesfe, Ahmadreza
Abdelhafez, Yasser G.
Nardo, Lorenzo
Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title_full Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title_fullStr Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title_full_unstemmed Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title_short Pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
title_sort pericardial computed tomography imaging findings in the setting of coccidioidomycosis
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9290292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35843935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07601-1
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