Open AccessPrevalence of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis among patients with severe bronchial asthma in a tertiary care hospital in Northern India
Author(s) -
D Bhankhur,
Nidhi Singla,
Deepak Aggarwal,
Jagdish Chander
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_205_18
Subject(s) - allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis , medicine , bronchiectasis , asthma , immunoglobulin e , eosinophil , aspergillus fumigatus , atopy , immunology , aspergillosis , allergy , lung , antibody
The link between fungi and asthma has been known for centuries. About one-third to one-half of severe asthmatics has history of atopic sensitization to filamentous fungi, most predominantly to Aspergillus fumigatus. Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is the one of the most documented fungal presentations among patients with asthma. This study was done on 50 patients with severe asthma who were consecutively enrolled from January 2016 to June 2017 to look for prevalence of ABPA.