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Detection of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Haematological Malignancy Patients by using Lateral-flow Technology
Published on: March 22, 2012
Left atrial thrombosis with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in children with immunodeficiency
Kyoung Sung Yun1, Hye Won Kwon2, Jae Gun Kwak2
1Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Abstract:
Invasive aspergillosis is a major cause of infectious disease in immunocompromised patients; however, cardiac involvement in pulmonary aspergillosis is not well-known. Two paediatric patients undergoing chemotherapy were diagnosed with cardiac aspergilloma, accompanied by pulmonary aspergillosis. In both patients, antibiotic and antifungal treatments were initiated immediately after the pneumonia was diagnosed; however, both died of multiple cerebral thromboembolisms.
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