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Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar
On-line version ISSN 1561-3046
Abstract
VALDES TORRES, Roberto Manuel and HERNANDEZ ECHAVARRIA, María Lourdes. Massive pulmonary necrosis due to mycosis. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2020, vol.49, n.3 Epub Nov 25, 2020. ISSN 1561-3046.
Introduction:
Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units.
Objective:
To present a case of a massive pulmonary mycosis due to an angioinvasive variant of Aspergillus.
Clinical case:
A patient with severe pulmonary aspergillosis, diagnosed after resection of a mediastinal tumor, is presented. The characteristics of the first intervention are described, the postoperative evolution that led to the second one, the tomographic, surgical, microbiological and anatomo-pathological images that allowed to define the diagnosis are shown.
Conclusions:
The possibility of a pulmonary mycosis should be taken into account, even when it is a rare and difficult-to-handle condition, in immunocompromised patients, with pulmonary condensation that is rebellious to treatment. Aspergillosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunosuppressed patients and its main source of transmission is the spores present in the air of operating rooms and intensive care units.
Keywords : lung diseases, fungal; pulmonary aspergillosis; invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.