Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis
Introduction: Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units. Objective: To present a case of a massive pulmonary mycosis due to an ang...
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| author | Roberto Manuel Valdés Torres María Lourdes Hernández Echavarría |
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| description | Introduction: Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units.
Objective: To present a case of a massive pulmonary mycosis due to an angioinvasive variant of Aspergillus.
Clinical case: A patient with severe pulmonary aspergillosis, diagnosed after resection of a mediastinal tumor, is presented. The characteristics of the first intervention are described, the postoperative evolution that led to the second one, the tomographic, surgical, microbiological and anatomo-pathological images that allowed to define the diagnosis are shown.
Conclusions: The possibility of a pulmonary mycosis should be taken into account, even when it is a rare and difficult-to-handle condition, in immunocompromised patients, with pulmonary condensation that is rebellious to treatment. Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-afea818d57b341c99562f8fc825ed5e22025-08-20T02:02:39ZspaEditorial Ciencias Médicas - ECIMEDRevista Cubana de Medicina Militar1561-30461561-30462020-08-01493e0200456e0200456265Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosisRoberto Manuel Valdés Torres0María Lourdes Hernández Echavarría1Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay"Hospital Militar Central "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay"Introduction: Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units. Objective: To present a case of a massive pulmonary mycosis due to an angioinvasive variant of Aspergillus. Clinical case: A patient with severe pulmonary aspergillosis, diagnosed after resection of a mediastinal tumor, is presented. The characteristics of the first intervention are described, the postoperative evolution that led to the second one, the tomographic, surgical, microbiological and anatomo-pathological images that allowed to define the diagnosis are shown. Conclusions: The possibility of a pulmonary mycosis should be taken into account, even when it is a rare and difficult-to-handle condition, in immunocompromised patients, with pulmonary condensation that is rebellious to treatment. Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units.http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/456enfermedades pulmonares fúngicasaspergilosis pulmonaraspergilosis pulmonar invasiva. |
| spellingShingle | Roberto Manuel Valdés Torres María Lourdes Hernández Echavarría Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar enfermedades pulmonares fúngicas aspergilosis pulmonar aspergilosis pulmonar invasiva. |
| title | Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| title_full | Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| title_fullStr | Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| title_short | Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| title_sort | massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis |
| topic | enfermedades pulmonares fúngicas aspergilosis pulmonar aspergilosis pulmonar invasiva. |
| url | http://www.revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/456 |
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