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Epidemics of pulmonary blastomycosis have rarely been reported. The following epidemic occurred in a Minnesota family and several of their acquaintances after a canoeing trip in northwestern Wisconsin. The common exposure area was most likely a campsite, located along the upper reaches of the
BACKGROUND
Blastomycosis is an uncommon male-predominant disease caused by the fungus Blastomyces dermatitidis. The lungs are most commonly affected, and other organs are usually involved by dissemination. Clinical feature and pathohistologic findings are similar to the appearance of squamous cell
UNASSIGNED
Blastomyces spp. are endemic in regions of the United States and result in blastomycosis, a serious and potentially fatal infection. Little is known about the presentation, clinic course, epidemiology, and genetics of blastomycosis in children.
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A retrospective review of
The authors reviewed the computed tomographic (CT) scans in 16 patients with pulmonary blastomycosis to describe the abnormalities seen at CT. The CT features were as follows: mass lesions (n = 14), consolidation (n = 9), air bronchograms (n = 14), intermediate-sized nodules (n = 12), satellite
Blastomycosis is not generally recognized to be a self-limited pulmonary infection. We report 13 patients with blastomycosis who followed a self-limited course. Presenting complaints were usually those of an acute pulmonary infection with fever, productive cough, and pleurtiic chest pain. The
We describe a case of blastomycosis in a diabetic patient from South India who had visited Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an endemic area for blastomycosis in the USA. After his return to Bangalore, India, the patient developed intermittent fever of moderate to high grade, cough, loss of weight and appetite,
Blastomycosis is one of the most common systemic fungal diseases in dogs in North America, but it is rarely diagnosed in cats. The typical route of infection is inhalation of aerosolized conidia of Blastomyces dermatitidis. From the respiratory tract, the developing yeast form may disseminate
A 32-year-old Korean woman presented with a rapidly enlarging abdominal mass six months after an undiagnosed illness of fever and a large pleural effusion. Exfoliative cytology of a cervical discharge revealed Blastomyces dermatiditis. At laparotomy, a large peritoneal inclusion cyst was found
Two children, aged 3 months and 4 years, respectively, were treated with ten weeks of amphotericin B for culture proved pulmonary blastomycosis. Organisms were easily demonstrated in nasopharyngeal or sputum specimens on admission. Although organisms were present until the 12th and 19th days of
METHODS
Few cases of overwhelming pulmonary blastomycosis associated with the adult respiratory distress syndrome have been reported. We describe 10 patients with this condition who were treated at one center in Wisconsin.
RESULTS
All 10 patients presented with fever, cough, and dyspnea;
We report a case of inoculation blastomycosis with dissemination to the lungs. The patient, a renal allograft recipient, was inoculated accidentally at the veterinarian's office where she worked. A nodular lesion appeared at the inoculation site, accompanied by lymphadenopathy and fever. Pulmonary
A 47-year-old woman presented with cough, pleuritic chest pain and fever of three weeks duration. Although the patient lived in an area where blastomycosis is endemic, this diagnosis was not initially considered owing to the presence of consolidation and a large pleural effusion on the initial chest
The clinical courses of 14 children with acute pulmonary blastomycosis were studied. All the patients had a remarkably similar illness limited to the lungs with fever, malaise, and respiratory symptoms (cough, sputum production, chest pain, and vomiting). Despite eventual recovery with treatment in
Approximately 120 cases of blastomycosis have been reported from Canada to-date. The great majority of these occurred in the Eastern provinces. Since 1970, three cases of blastomycosis have been seen in Alberta. The first case, with meningeal and pulmonary involvements, was diagnosed at post-mortem.
OBJECTIVE
To describe a case of successful treatment of severe pulmonary blastomycosis with amphotericin B deoxycholate after failure of liposomal amphotericin B.
METHODS
A 35-year-old male was exposed to damp decomposing wood while cleaning his basement. He subsequently developed a cough, malaise,