A 55-year-old man with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), has a history of noncompliance to antiretroviral therapy with recurrent opportunistic infections due to clostridium difficile and mycobacterium avium complex. He presented to the hospital with fever, diarrhea, weight loss and generalized weakness, and was diagnosed with clostridium...

SINCE the early records of aspergillus infections of the upper respiratory tract in man (Zarniko 1891; Schubert 1885), there have been sporadic reports in the literature from various parts of the world. These give the impression that while the incidence of the infection naturally varies in different countries, it is on the whole_uncommon_ (Andersen and Stenderup 1956; Montreuil 1955), but has b...

Aspergilloma and invasive aspergillosis coexisting with multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the same patient is a rare entity. We report a 50 year old South Indian woman, a diabetic, who presented to us with complaints of productive cough and hemoptysis for the past 2 months. She was diagnosed to have pulmonary tuberculosis 2 years ago for which she took irregular treatme...

The authors report an unusual case involving a 38 year-old man who developed a intracranial abscess caused by Aspergillus of the parietal lobe. Cerebral aspergilloma of an initial pulmonary origin developed in a patient with "Fungus Ball" secondary to tuberculosis sequelae. The diagnosis was made through the isolation of Aspergillus from the secretion of the brain abscesses. The patient was tre...

Aspergillosis is a serious pathologic condition caused by Aspergillus that commonly affects immunocompromised patients. In recent years, it has been demonstrated infection can cause wide spectrum of pulmonary diseases, including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, chronic necrotizing aspergilloma, and invasive aspergillosis. The characteristic computed tomography (CT) findings the various ...

Two cases of non-invasive aspergillosis of the nose and paranasal sinuses are described. The first presented with left proptosis and ophthalmoplegia. Imaging and histology showed a maxillary sinus aspergilloma. The second case presented as a compressive optic neuropathy and histology showed allergic aspergillus sinusitis. The pathological distinction between invasive and non-invasive forms of a...