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Infectious disease rounds: pneumonia due to Aspergillus
1Department of Medicine, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Camden, NJ.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|May 1, 1993
Abstract:
Angioinvasive fungi, like Aspergillus, can cause invasive infections in patients immunosuppressed by steroid therapy. Pulmonary infarction, manifested as pleuritic chest pain, frequently results from in situ thrombosis and is characteristic of Aspergillus pneumonia.