%0 Journal Article
%T Aspergillary bronchopneumonia: an unusual cause of atelectasis and asphyxia in a leukemic patient
%A Velloso
%A Elvira Deolinda Rodrigues Pereira
%A Martinez
%A Gracia Aparecida
%A Dorlhiac-Llacer
%A Pedro Enrique
%A Chamone
%A Dalton Alencar Fischer
%J Sao Paulo Medical Journal
%D 1994
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S1516-31801994000400004
%X a 22-year-old man in his first relapse of t-acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed fever and a pulmonary infiltrate after 23 days of granulocytopenia. although having been under amphotericin b for 10 days, productive purulent cough ensued, with right lobe atelectasis and acute ventilatory failure that resolved after the elimination of a thick gelatinous bronchial plug. sputum cultures yielded candida albicans and staphylococcus epidermidis, and microscopic examination of the sputum plug disclosed aspergillus hyphae. the patient died 9 days after, of a disseminated aspergillus infection, confirmed by necropsy.
%K aspergillosis
%K atelectasis
%K leukemia.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-31801994000400004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en