Invasive Aspergillosis Clinical Features of 35 Proven Cases at a Single Institution
| Autor: | T. Huguenin, Chapuis B, Laurent Kaiser, Didier Pittet, Lew Pd |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Antifungal Agents Time Factors Lactams Anti-Inflammatory Agents Sputum/microbiology Disease Neutropenia Aspergillosis Anti-Inflammatory Agents/therapeutic use Aspergillus/isolation & purification Internal medicine Aspergillosis/ diagnosis/drug therapy/microbiology Humans Medicine ddc:576.5 Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Aspergillus medicine.diagnostic_test biology business.industry Sputum General Medicine Length of Stay Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Surgery Hospitalization Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use medicine.anatomical_structure Bronchoalveolar lavage Concomitant Antifungal Agents/therapeutic use Female Steroids Bone marrow medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Medicine (Baltimore), Vol. 77, No 3 (1998) pp. 188-194 |
| ISSN: | 0025-7974 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00005792-199805000-00004 |
| Popis: | Thirty-five patients with clinical features and histologically or microbiologically proven infection met predetermined stringent criteria for invasive aspergillosis over a 5-year period at our institution. Underlying conditions included hematologic malignancy, solid tumor, bone marrow and solid organ transplantation, and immunosuppressive therapy. The majority of patients (94%) presented with respiratory symptoms and abnormal pulmonary chest radiography; only 40% had neutropenia at time of infection. Invasive aspergillosis was suspected in only 21 cases (60%). Concomitant infections were present in 83% of patients. Half of patients had pathogenic or potentially pathogenic microorganisms other than Aspergillus spp. isolated from pulmonary specimens at time of aspergillosis. Aspergillus spp. were recovered from sputum in 75% of patients and from bronchoalveolar lavage in only 52%. Invasive aspergillosis is an unexpectedly unrecognized disease with poor outcome; overall mortality was 94% in our series. The lack of sensitivity of diagnostic procedures, together with the high frequency of concomitant infections, delays the time of diagnosis. Early diagnostic tests are needed, and presumptive antifungal therapy among high-risk patients is mandatory. |
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