Progressive gastrointestinal histoplasmosis leading to colonic obstruction two years after initial presentation

Hertan, Hilary; Nair, Satheesh; Argüello, Pedro

doi:10.1016/s0002-9270(00)02272-3

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“…Clinical presentation includes hematochezia, melena, perforation, peritonitis, colonic mass, strictures, and intestinal obstruction . If GI Histoplasma infection is left untreated, mortality is around 80% …”

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Gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in a patient after autologous stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma

Mohan

Fogel²,

Eluvathingal³

et al. 2016

Transplant Infectious Dis

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A 59-year-old patient with multiple myeloma on maintenance chemotherapy presented with fever, weight loss, and night sweats. An F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) computed tomography (CT) showed intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy with a mesenteric mass that led to further workup and diagnosis of histoplamosis. The patient was treated with amphotericin B and subsequently switched to itraconazole. This exemplifies the usefulness of FDG PET CT in diagnosis of infectious complications.

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Gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in a patient after autologous stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma

Mohan

Fogel²,

Eluvathingal³

et al. 2016

Transplant Infectious Dis

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“…The incidence of this infection in Europe is smaller than that observed in the American continent. Isolated jejunal infection is rare, since gastrointestinal lesions are predominantly colonic in most immunosuppressed patients with disseminated histoplasmosis (22,23). Lesions in the gastrointestinal tract include ulcers (49% of patients), nodules (21%), hemorrhage (13%), obstructive growths (6%), and normal mucosa (23%).…”

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