Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and pulmonary cryptococcosis really coexist in immunocompromised host
Chih-Ming Lin1, Ying-Huang Tsai, Chung-Chi Huang
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 199 Tun-Hwa North Road, Taipei 105, Taiwan. lin789@adm.cgmh.org.tw
Abstract:
Fungal infections develop slowly in immunocompetent patients and rarely a severe disease, however, they progress rapidly and usually prove fatal in immunocompromised patients. Early diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections is essential to survival of immunocompromised patients. We report a 33-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus undergoing immunotherapy infected with combined invasive pulmonary aspergillosis and pulmonary cryptococcosis diagnosed by video-assisted thoracic surgery lung biopsy and she was successfully treated as a result of early diagnosis and treatment.
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