Several Nocardia abcessus bronchiolitis in a patient treated with inhaled corticosteroids: a case report

Autor:	Estelle Cascarano, Murielle Frappa, Bruno Degano, Isabelle Pelloux, Christel Saint-Raymond, Hubert Gheerbrant
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Nocardiosis Asthma Inhaled corticosteroids Bronchiolitis Case report Immunologic diseases. Allergy RC581-607
Zdroj:	Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2023)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1710-1492
DOI:	10.1186/s13223-023-00779-2
Popis:	Abstract Nocardiosis is a disease that mainly affects immunocompromised patients. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are standard of care for asthma. This treatment can induce respiratory infections but no case of bronchiolitis nocardiosis have been described so far. A 58-year-old man, with history of controlled moderate allergic asthma, develop an increased cought in the last two years associated with dyspnea on exertion. Within two months, although ICS were increased to high doses, symptoms worsened due to a severe obstructive ventilatory disorder as revealed by pulmonary function tests (PFT). Small-scale lesions (
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