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9396259

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-12-31
pubmed:abstractText
A 64-year-old woman with a history of old tuberculosis, had a fungus ball shadow with meniscus sign in the upper right lung field on a chest X-ray film in 1991. Based on the chest X-ray findings, pulmonary aspergilloma was suspected. Because the size of the intracavitary fungus ball increased, the patient was treated with itraconazole over one year in 1995, but there was no improvement. One month later, she was admitted because of fever, hemoptysis and productive cough, and chest X-ray showed an enlargement of intracavitary mass and infiltrative shadow in the right lung. Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis was diagnosed on the basis of her clinical and radiographic features, and positive serological test. Although itraconazol and amphotericin B were given, cavity and intracavitary fungus ball shadow kept growing. Combination therapy of antifungal drugs and ulinastatin markedly improved symptoms and resulted in complete disappearance of the fungus ball on chest CT scan.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0301-1542
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
991-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
[A case of chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis successfully treated with combination therapy of antifungal drugs and ulinastatin].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Seirei Hamamatsu Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports