• Internal medicine · Jan 2020

    Case Reports

    Fulminant Tracheobronchial Aspergillosis in an Apparently Healthy Adult.

    • Hayato Moribuchi, Rumi Sato, Shuntaro Matsushima, Masaki Tominaga, Jun Sasaki, Masayuki Nakamura, Yuki Sakazaki, Mamoru Nishiyama, Tomoaki Hoshino, and Tomotaka Kawayama.
    • Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2020 Jan 1; 59 (10): 1295-1298.

    AbstractA 56-year-old healthy man who was a current smoker died from fulminant tracheobronchial aspergillosis despite a month of treatment with a combination of intravenous anti-fungal agents that had been started immediately after the diagnosis. This case report is important for understanding and managing fulminant Aspergillus infections in healthy subjects, although the pathogenesis and underlying pathways are still unknown.

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