Open AccessPulmonary aspergillosis: reports of two cases from a primary care center of Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Chinmay Saha Podder,
Nandini Chowdhury,
Arindrajit Chowdhury
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
birdem medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-3720
pISSN - 2305-3712
DOI - 10.3329/birdem.v11i3.55225
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary aspergillosis , aspergilloma , aspergillosis , refractory (planetary science) , chronic cough , surgery , asthma , immunology , physics , astrobiology
Pulmonary aspergillosis is an uncommon condition and at the same time very much challenging to diagnose and difficult to treat. Here, we present two cases of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, who presented with with chronic low-grade fever, refractory and distressing cough and haemoptysis. The first patient was diagnosed as having aspergilloma in a pre-existing healed tubercular cavity and the second one with subacute necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis, which simulated as bronchial carcinoma.
BIRDEM Med J 2021; 11(3): 227-230