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Girish Sindhwani1, Jagdish Rawat, Vikas Kesarwani
1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun (Uttarakhand), India. girish.sindhwani75@gmail.com
Abstract:
We present a case of a 26-year-old male who underwent lobectomy for life-threatening haemoptysis due to aspergilloma in an old tuberculosis left upper lobe cavity who presented with recurrence of haemoptysis four years after the surgery. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy revealed Aspergillus colonisation in the ectatic residual bronchus which is an uncommon complication of lobectomy. The patient was successfully managed with antifungal agents.
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