Systemic Moniliasis and Aspergillosis Complicating Corticotropin Therapy

Lévy, E

doi:10.1001/archinte.1955.00250070134016

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“…In both types the development is in close correlation with decreased resistance of the organism, so that most cases will be found in long-term wasting diseases, such as tumours, tuberculosis, and blood dyscrasias. More recently, the long-term administration of antibiotics and corticosteroids has undoubtedly contributed to their occurrence (Sidransky and Friedman, 1959;Torack, 1957;Welsh and Buchness, 1955;Levy and Cohen, 1955).…”

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Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary Aspergillomata

Plihal¹,

Jedlickova²,

Viklický³

et al. 1964

Thorax

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Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary Aspergillomata

Plihal¹,

Jedlickova²,

Viklický³

et al. 1964

Thorax

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“…In other cases reported by Brown, Propp, Guest, Beebe and Early (1953) and by Stein (1959) there was traumatic perforation of the duodenum. In seven cases moniliasis complicated the course of blood dyscrasias; aleukaemic leukamia (Levy and Cohen, 1955;Higuchi and Iwasaki, 1958 (two cases); Lannigan and Meynell, 1959); probable hTemochromatosis and maturation arrest aplastic anxemia (Ffrench and Shenoi, 1954); multiple myelomatosis (Van Buren, 1958) and agranulocytosis (Boyd and Chappell, 1961). The antecedent diseases in the rest of the cases are shown in Table 2.…”

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Acute Disseminated (Septicaemic) Moniliasis in Adults and Children

Hurley

1964

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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“…bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) might have been present. Among the patients described in table 1, two of the first four were unusual because their underlying conditions reEvaluable Cases mained unknown even after autopsy [21,23]. However, all three patients had been treated with corticosteroids.…”

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“…The first steroid treatment for suspected adrenal insufficiency. Aspergilisolated case was published in 1955 [21].…”

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Aspergillus Pericarditis with Tamponade: Report of a Successfully Treated Case and Review

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and Philippe CasassusWe report a case of aspergillus pericarditis with tamponade complicating invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient treated for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Prolonged antifungal therapy and aggressive surgical treatment cured the pericarditis, without relapse, despite the fact that the patient underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation. In a review of 28 other cases of aspergillus pericarditis, we found that this condition usually had occurred in severely immunocompromised patients and was always the result of contiguous dissemination of Aspergillus from the lung or myocardium. Tamponade was present in eight of 29 patients. Aspergillus antigen was detected in the pericardial fluid of all three patients whose fluid specimens were tested. Aspergillus pericarditis was diagnosed before death in 10 of 29 patients, all of whom had established premortem diagnoses of invasive aspergillosis at other sites and had received antifungal therapy. Three of the four survivors received combined medical and aggressive surgical therapies. The performance of echocardiography early during the course of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, together with intensive combined therapies, might lower the high mortality associated with aspergillus pericarditis.Invasive aspergillosis (IA) has become a common fungal pergillus and aspergillosis with the terms pericarditis, pericardium, hemopericardium, myocarditis, and pancarditis. We also infection in patients who have profound neutropenia for prolonged periods. The prevalence of IA is estimated to be as high reviewed the published series and reviews on infectious pericarditis and IA in patients with AIDS, chronic granulomatous as 70% among patients who have been granulocytopenic for 1 month [1]. IA is also being observed increasingly in patients disease (CGD), leukemia, lymphoma, and solid organ and bone marrow transplants and in those receiving corticosteroid therwith solid organ transplants, late-stage AIDS, and diabetes mellitus and in those who have received prolonged corticosteroid apy. References cited in the articles reviewed were also scrutinized for potential additional cases. therapy. The most frequent sites of IA are the lungs and nasal sinuses, but dissemination occurs in 20% -30% of immuno-A case could be evaluated when sufficient demographic information was available for the clear identification of an indicompromised patients [2]. Cardiac involvement is uncommon and most often manifests as endocarditis or myocarditis [2]. vidual patient. We considered aspergillus pericarditis to be present in patients who had (1) evidence of clinical and/or Pericardial aspergillosis is rarely diagnosed before death and has been considered always fatal in neutropenic patients [3]. macroscopic involvement of the pericardium during the course of histologically and mycologically confirmed IA, without any We report a case of pericardial aspergillosis with tamponade in which combined antifungal and surgical therapies were sucreported alternative cause of pericarditis; (2) a ...

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Systemic Moniliasis and Aspergillosis Complicating Corticotropin Therapy

Cited by 70 publications

References 6 publications

Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary Aspergillomata

Multiple Bilateral Pulmonary Aspergillomata

Acute Disseminated (Septicaemic) Moniliasis in Adults and Children

Aspergillus Pericarditis with Tamponade: Report of a Successfully Treated Case and Review

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