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Histological Quantification to Determine Lung Fungal Burden in Experimental Aspergillosis
Published on: March 9, 2018
[Lung mycosis in non neuropenic patients]
B Ourari-Dhahri1, J Ben Amar, L El Gharbi
1Service de pneumologie, faculté de médecine de Tunis, université Tunis El Manar, centre hospitalo-universitaire Charles-Nicolle, Bab Saadoun, 1106 Tunis, Tunisie.
Unlabelled:
Lung mycosis is rare. Diagnosis and treatment must be done the earliest possible.
Methods:
It is about a retrospective study on clinical records including patients hospitalized for lung infection.
Results:
From 2008 to 2011, 16 patients (13 men and three women, average age 42 years) developed a pulmonary infection. Twelve of our patients had respiratory or extrarespiratory histories. None of our patients had a neutropenia. The diagnoses were lung aspergilloma in four cases, invasive lung aspergillosis in three cases, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in three cases, mucormycosis in three cases, trichosporonosis in a case, actinomycosis in one case and penicilliosis in one case. An antifungal treatment consisting in amphotericin B or itraconazole was given to four patients and six patients, respectively. Surgery was chosen for six patients. The evolution was good for 12 patients, one presented renal failure, and three patients died.
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