Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent child

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is a progressive and destructive disease of the lung parenchyma. We report a 9-year-old boy diagnosed with CPA with a positive Aspergillus IgG and chest imaging of cavitary lung lesions. He was treated with oral Itraconazole with significant improvement. This sh...

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Autores principales: Davies, Adeyinka A., Adegbite, Ireti A., Akintan, Patricia E., Ibrahim, Usman O., Adekoya, Abiola O., Oladele, Rita O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9294259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35865451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2022.07.001
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Sumario:Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is a progressive and destructive disease of the lung parenchyma. We report a 9-year-old boy diagnosed with CPA with a positive Aspergillus IgG and chest imaging of cavitary lung lesions. He was treated with oral Itraconazole with significant improvement. This shows that an index of suspicion should be heightened in the paediatric population with cavitary lung lesions because not all cavitary lung lesions are caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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