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Clinical and radiological features of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in transplant recipients and neutropenic patients
Author(s) -
Park S.Y.,
Kim S.H.,
Choi S.H.,
Sung H.,
Kim M.N.,
Woo J.H.,
Kim Y.S.,
Park S.K.,
Lee J.H.,
Lee K.H.,
Lee S.G.,
Han D.J.,
Lee S.O.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2010.00499.x
Subject(s) - medicine , radiological weapon , aspergillosis , intensive care medicine , neutropenia , immunology , radiology , chemotherapy
S.Y. Park, S.‐H. Kim, S.‐H. Choi, H. Sung, M.‐N. Kim, J.H. Woo, Y.S. Kim, S.‐K. Park, J.‐H. Lee, K.‐H. Lee, S.‐G. Lee, D.J. Han, S.‐O. Lee. Clinical and radiological features of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in transplant recipients and neutropenic patients.
Transpl Infect Dis 2010: 12: 309–315. All rights reserved Abstract: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is an important cause of mortality in transplant recipients and in patients with neutropenia. Although IPA has been studied extensively in neutropenic patients, there are limited data on IPA in recipients of solid organ transplants (SOTs). We compared the clinical features and radiologic findings of 27 SOT recipients with IPA with those of 35 neutropenic patients with IPA. The SOT recipients were more likely than neutropenic patients to show peribronchial consolidation (31% vs. 7%; P =0.03) or ground‐glass opacity (38% vs. 7%; P =0.007) and less likely to have fever (22% vs. 80%; P <0.001), macro‐nodules (35% vs. 67%; P =0.02), mass‐like consolidation (27% vs. 67%; P =0.004), halo signs (8% vs. 56%; P <0.001), or air‐crescent signs (0% vs. 22%; P =0.01).