Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions

Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions

Central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis is uncommon and considered the most lethal form of aspergillosis. Indeed, current therapeutic strategies such as combination antifungal regimen, neurosurgical resection of infected tissue, and removal of infection source fail to improve the unsatisfactory p...

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Main Authors: Meidani, Mohsen, Hakamifard, Atousa, Sarrami, Amir Hossein
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974992/
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spelling pubmed-49749922016-10-01 Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions Meidani, Mohsen Hakamifard, Atousa Sarrami, Amir Hossein Case Report Central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis is uncommon and considered the most lethal form of aspergillosis. Indeed, current therapeutic strategies such as combination antifungal regimen, neurosurgical resection of infected tissue, and removal of infection source fail to improve the unsatisfactory prognosis of CNS aspergillosis in the majority of the patients. The authors describe a case of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis with concomitant CNS lesions that dramatically responded to antifungal therapy and the CNS lesions resolved in follow-up imaging. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4974992/ /pubmed/27695571 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.175644 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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author Meidani, Mohsen
Hakamifard, Atousa
Sarrami, Amir Hossein
spellingShingle Meidani, Mohsen
Hakamifard, Atousa
Sarrami, Amir Hossein
Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
author_facet Meidani, Mohsen
Hakamifard, Atousa
Sarrami, Amir Hossein
author_sort Meidani, Mohsen
title Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
title_short Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
title_full Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
title_fullStr Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
title_full_unstemmed Resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
title_sort resolution of aspergillosis in neuroimaging of an immunocompromised patient with pulmonary and cerebral lesions
description Central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis is uncommon and considered the most lethal form of aspergillosis. Indeed, current therapeutic strategies such as combination antifungal regimen, neurosurgical resection of infected tissue, and removal of infection source fail to improve the unsatisfactory prognosis of CNS aspergillosis in the majority of the patients. The authors describe a case of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis with concomitant CNS lesions that dramatically responded to antifungal therapy and the CNS lesions resolved in follow-up imaging.
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974992/
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