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Histological Quantification to Determine Lung Fungal Burden in Experimental Aspergillosis
Published on: March 9, 2018
[Complex respiratory aspergillosis: diagnostic and therapeuthic difficulties]
M Marcq1, P Germaud, L Cellerin
1Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital G. & R. Laennec, CHU de Nantes, France.
Introduction:
Respiratory aspergillosis with different physiopathologic mechanisms can be associated in one patient in rare occasions.
Case Report:
We review three cases associating an allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and an other form of aspergillosis: aspergilloma, chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis and we present a review of literature.
Conclusion:
Such associations result in diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. Corticosteroid treatment used for ABPA can increase the risk of severe infections. Such cases are a good indication of systemic antifungal therapy.
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