[Pulmonary aspergillosis. Report of 8 children]

The clinical files were reviewed of eight pediatric patients who died between 1976 and 1990, having the pathological diagnosis of aspergillosis. During the clinical evolution seven displayed malnutrition and respiratory symptomatology, four had slow evolving fever and oral candidiasis. The image in all the chest X-Rays was opaque. In the laboratory four had leukopenia, lymphopenia and neutropenia: two with a positive culture of Aspergillus. Five received four to eight different antibiotics during the last clinical evolution. All showed a combination of diverse forms of aspergillosis, all with the invasive form, five with the disseminated form, three bronchopulmonary allergic and one with aspergilloma. All had invasion of the respiratory system. Septicemia had the cause of death in four and three was direct relation with Aspergillosis.