Disseminaded coccidiodomycosis presentig as acute respiratory distress syndrome in a liver postrasplant recipient

Autor:	Darwin Lambraño-Castillo
Jazyk:	English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	acute respiratory distress syndrome coccidiodomycosis solid organ trasplant Therapeutics. Pharmacology RM1-950 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Infectio, Vol 25, Iss 3, Pp 189-192 (2021)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0123-9392 72498080
DOI:	10.22354/in.v25i3.946
Popis:	Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a respiratory process of acute onset, showing on X rays as bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and severe respiratory failu-re, Coccidiodomycosis is a unusual cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the incidence of coccidiomycosis in a solid organ trasplant recipientes ranges from 1.4% a 6.9%, inadecuancy of cellular inmunity is a well established risk factor for development of coccididomcosis, less than 1% of patients develop disseminaded infecction and carrying high mortality, the case that we are presenting add to the small list of reports documenting the ocasionally acute and agressive nature of the disseminated clinical form of coccidiodomycosis.
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