Many faces of pulmonary aspergillosis.

Two Cases of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in an Iranian Family

SUMMARY Aspergillosis is an infectious disease caused by genus aspergillos species. Aspergilli are ab undant in the environment, they Jive in soil as saprophyte deriving nutrient, from dead plants and animal matters. The genus aspergillos in characterized by the formation of distinctive conidiophores giving rise to conidias which can spread by air and are able to reside on the body surface spe...

Pathologic manifestations of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in cancer patients: the many faces of aspergillus.

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a fulminant and highly lethal infection of severely immunocompromised patients with a reported mortality rate of approximately 60%.1 Patients who are at considerable risk include those who are granulocytopenic due to bone marrow transplantation, those who are undergoing intensive cytotoxic chemotherapy for the treatment of neoplasia, and those with a hi...

Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Ostrich

Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst Co-infected with Invasive Aspergillosis

Here we report a case of co-infection of hydatid cyst with invasive apergillosis, in a previously healthy, non immunocompromised, 26year old man. Chest x-ray revealed a large cystic cavity in left upper lobe of lung histopathologic examination of the specimen confirmed the diagnosis of hydatid cyst with numerous fungal hyphea which invaded the laminated wall of the cyst. Although, co-infection ...

Too Many Mouldy Joints – Marijuana and Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis is a progressive debilitating disease with multiple underlying pulmonary diseases described. Here we report the association of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and long term marijuana smoking in 2 patients and review the literature related to invasive and allergic aspergillosis.