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- Title
Aspergilosis pulmonar invasiva en paciente neutropenico.
- Authors
López López, Antonio Gonzalo; Berazain, Cinthya Andia
- Abstract
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is an necrotizing opportunistic fungal infection in immunocompromised patients necrotizing. The germ causing the disease has vascular tropism that causing thrombosis and ischemic necrosis with the formation of cavities, and the degree of immune impairment is associated with high mortality. The classic triad in neutropenic patients include: fever, pleuritic pain and hemoptysis. The chest radiograph may be normal in the IPA or showing some characteristic radiological signs such as consolidation, nodules, and the sign of halo or air crescent sign, on computed tomography. The most frequent presentation is pulmonary consolidation having about 60% of patients. API mortality exceeds 50% in neutropenic patients, and more than 90% in cases of bone marrow transplantation. The drug of choice is voriconazole, amphotericin B in other alternatives. Treatment results are not always satisfactory because of the delay in the initiation of drug therapy and the limitation on the number of active antifungal agents available. Its reports the case of a male patient of 61 years, diagnosed with API for the importance it deserves in the early identification of this pathology, diagnosis and treatment, avoiding complications with high mortality.
- Publication
Gaceta Médica Boliviana, 2015, Vol 38, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
1012-2966
- Publication type
Article