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
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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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author Davies, Adeyinka A.
Adegbite, Ireti A.
Akintan, Patricia E.
Ibrahim, Usman O.
Adekoya, Abiola O.
Oladele, Rita O.
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Adegbite, Ireti A.
Akintan, Patricia E.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-92942592022-07-20 Chronic cavitary pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent child Davies, Adeyinka A. Adegbite, Ireti A. Akintan, Patricia E. Ibrahim, Usman O. Adekoya, Abiola O. Oladele, Rita O. Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report 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. Elsevier 2022-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9294259/ /pubmed/35865451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2022.07.001 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9294259/
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