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Published in: Emergency Radiology 1/2008

01-01-2008 | Case Report

Imaging findings of pulmonary infection caused by Scedosporium prolificans in a deep immunocompromised patient’

Authors: Raúl Pellón Dabén, Enrique Marco de Lucas, Laura Martín Cuesta, Tatiana Piedra Velasco, Javier Arnaiz García, Rosa Landeras, Monica López Duarte, Arancha Bermúdez

Published in: Emergency Radiology | Issue 1/2008

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Abstract

Scedosporium prolificans is an emerging fungus that causes rapid progressive and disseminated infections in immunodepressed patients. We present a case of a 34-year-old woman with chronic myelogeneous leukemia who received a bone marrow transplantation and suffered a sudden respiratory failure in +67 day. Chest radiographies showed growing bilateral patchy condensations. Computed Tomography depicted bilateral nodular condensation of alveolar space. S. prolificans was detected from sputum, but the patient died 72 h later. Imaging findings of lung scedosporiosis are nonspecific, but CT may provide a prompter diagnosis and allow to add newer antifungal treatments. This report presents the first imaging report of lung scedosporiosis.
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Metadata
Title
Imaging findings of pulmonary infection caused by Scedosporium prolificans in a deep immunocompromised patient’
Authors
Raúl Pellón Dabén
Enrique Marco de Lucas
Laura Martín Cuesta
Tatiana Piedra Velasco
Javier Arnaiz García
Rosa Landeras
Monica López Duarte
Arancha Bermúdez
Publication date
01-01-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Emergency Radiology / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Electronic ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-007-0634-9

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