Aspergillus niger pneumonia as superinfection in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis
We report a patient with severe cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis and Aspergillus niger superinfection, whose only comorbidity was untreated diabetes mellitus. A. niger pneumonia was proven by PCR, sequencing and culture of pleural and respiratory secretions. The patient was successfully treated with a four-drug antituberculous regimen, liposomal amphotericin B (up to 5 mg/kg/d) and pleuro-pneumonectomy. Histology of the resected lung revealed destroyed lung tissue with inflammatory cells and fungal conidia. There were large deposits of polarising material, which was found to be calcium oxalate. There was also nodular caseat...
Source: Pneumologie - March 7, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Santiago Ewig S ören Gatermann Stathis Phillipou Christian Giesa Erich Hecker Source Type: research
CF Lung Disease - a German S3 Guideline: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pneumologie. 2024 Feb 29. doi: 10.1055/a-2278-6685. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38423036 | DOI:10.1055/a-2278-6685 (Source: Pneumologie)
Source: Pneumologie - February 29, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Carsten Schwarz Jutta Bend Helge Hebestreit Michael Hogardt Christian H ügel Stephan Illing Jochen G Mainz Ernst Rietschel Sebastian Schmidt Bernhard Schulte-Hubbert Helmut Sitter Marc Oliver Wielp ütz Jutta Hammermann Ingo Baumann Frank Brunsmann Doris Source Type: research
