Paracoccidioidomicose genital feminina. Descrição de um caso clínico

Campos, Elisabete Ferreira Esteves; Torchio, L. N.; Lima, Prata; Gomes, Felipe Couto; Feracin, A. C. M.; Schellini, R. C.; Bacchi, Carlos E.

doi:10.1590/s0036-46651986000100010

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“…Urogenital involvement is rare among females, representing only 10% of cases. Despite the low frequency, cases with lesions in the ovaries and adnexa [ 285 ], placenta [ 286 , 287 ] and breasts [ 288 - 290 ] have been reported.…”

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Paracoccidioidomycosis: Current Perspectives from Brazil

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Background:This review article summarizes and updates the knowledge on paracoccidioidomycosis. P lutzii and the cryptic species of P. brasiliensis and their geographical distribution in Latin America, explaining the difficulties observed in the serological diagnosis.Objectives:Emphasis has been placed on some genetic factors as predisposing condition for paracoccidioidomycosis. Veterinary aspects were focused, showing the wide distribution of infection among animals. The cell-mediated immunity was better characterized, incorporating the recent findings.Methods:Serological methods for diagnosis were also compared for their parameters of accuracy, including the analysis of relapse.Results:Clinical forms have been better classified in order to include the pictures less frequently observesiod.Conclusion:Itraconazole and the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combination was compared regarding efficacy, effectiveness and safety, demonstrating that azole should be the first choice in the treatment of paracoccidioidomycosis.

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Carvalho

Montenegro²

1999

Mycopathologia

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Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a dimorphic fungus presenting specific steroid hormone receptors, both in the yeast and mycelial forms and estrogen inhibits the transition from mycelium to yeast. In the acute phase, the disease occurs with equal frequency in both sexes but in adults, females are spared. Placental fungal infection has been reported, but references to fetal infection have not been confirmed. We used 78 Syrian female hamsters divided into 3 groups: GI consisted of 30 infected mated females, GII of 20 infected unmated females and GIII of 28 uninfected mated females. Animals of group I were mated 4 weeks after infection and half of them were submitted to cesarean section on day 15 after successful mating; the other half was maintained and submitted to cesarean section and sacrificed 14 weeks after infection. Half of the animals of group II were sacrificed seven weeks and the other half 14 weeks after infection. Uninfected animals of group III were treated the same as the animals of group I. The animals were infected with strain 18 of P. brasiliensis by the intracardiac route. We evaluated the disease by the volume of granulomas in different organs, number of fungi in liver and spleen and the immunologic responses [ELISA, Double Immunodifusion (DID), Delayed Hypersensitivity Skin Test (DHT) and Macrophage Migration Inhibition (MMI)]. We studied the infection through the gestation by evaluation of the abortions, morphologic and clinic examinations of the fetuses. Our results showed that the infection did not transfer to the fetus through the placenta, but the number of abortions was larger among infected females. The newborns of GI females were smaller, weighed less and showed little vitality. The disease was more severe and disseminated in infected mated females, especially in the second sacrifice 14 weeks after inoculation, when the total volume of granulomas in them (56.3 mm) was much greater than in the infected unmated females (12 mm).

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Paracoccidioidomycosis of external genitalia: report of six new cases and review of the literature

Marques

Tangoda²,

Camargo

et al. 2012

An. Bras. Dermatol.

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BACKGROUND: Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic mycosis of dermatological interest due to the frequency of cutaneous and mucosal lesions. The involvement of the external genitalia is extremely rare and few cases have been reported. OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence of external genitalia lesions in paracoccidioidomycosis patients, identify clinical characteristics and compare with what is observed in the specific literature. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study, with focus on paracoccidioiodomycosis patients with external genitalia lesions. The demographic and clinical aspects of cases were compared with what has been reported so far on LILACS, SciELO e MEDLINE data bases. RESULTS: Data of 483 cases of paracoccidioidomycosis were studied in a 42-year period. Six (1.2%) patients showed specific lesions on external genitalia. Five patients were male with mean age of 47.2 years and all of them presented with the chronic multifocal clinical form. Only one, a 15-year-old female patient was observed who showed a subacute clinical form, juvenile type. CONCLUSIONS: Compromise of the genitourinary tract among paracoccidioidomycosis patients is rare and even rarer when only the external genitalia are considered. As observed in the classical picture of paracoccidioidomycosis patients, the male gender and the chronic multifocal clinical form prevailed in the present study. Keywords: Dermatology; Genitalia; Mucous membrane; Paracoccidioidomycosis Resumo: FUNDAMENTOS: Paracoccidioidomicose é micose sistêmica de interesse dermatológico pela freqüência de lesões tegumentares. Sua localização em genitália externa é extremamente rara e pouco descrita. OBJETIVOS: estudar a prevalência de lesões de paracoccidioidomicose de localização genital, identificar suas características clínicas e compará-las com a literatura específica. MÉTODOS: estudo descritivo, transversal, de série de casos, com inclusão de casos com lesões específicas de paracoccidioidomicose de localização genital externa, estudo das características demográficas e clínicas dos casos, confrontados com dados de revisão da literatura nas bases LILACS, SciELO e MEDLINE. RESULTADOS: foram revisados de 483 pacientes de paracoccidioidomicose diagnosticados no período de 42 anos. Seis (1,2%) pacientes apresentavam lesão específica de genitália externa. Cinco eram do sexo masculino com idade média de 47,2 anos e todos com a forma crônica multifocal da doença, O único caso do sexo feminino, de 15 anos de idade, apresentava a forma subaguda, tipo juvenil. CONCLUSÕES: o comprometimento do trato geniturinário na paracoccidioidomicose é raro e mais ainda quando se considera apenas as localizações de genitália externa. Como na paracoccidioidomicose clássica, o sexo masculino e a forma crônica da doença predominaram na amostragem estudada.

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Paracoccidioidomicose genital feminina. Descrição de um caso clínico

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