Open AccessAspergillus pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis in an immunocompetent individual: A diagnostic conundrum with therapeutic challenge
Author(s) -
Balan Louis Gaspar,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Kirti Gupta,
M. R. Shivaprakash
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.188981
Subject(s) - medicine , autopsy , aspergillus , disease , tracheitis , intensive care medicine , aspergillosis , dermatology , pathology , immunology , microbiology and biotechnology , bronchitis , biology
Aspergillus tracheobronchitis is an extremely uncommon manifestation of Aspergillus infection. Most of the cases described in the literature are in the immunosuppressed individuals and is almost uniformly fatal. Immunocompetent individuals do manifest the disease, but the disease if diagnosed early can be appropriately treated and thus can be life-saving. Here, we describe a similar case which was diagnosed only at autopsy.