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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever
Authors:Prashant Nasa  Rohit Yadav  S.K. Nagrani  Sanjay Raina  Ankur Gupta  Shakti Jain
Abstract:
We report a case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with sever dengue fever. She started showing recovery from dengue fever with medical management. On day 6 of admission, she had leukocytosis, altered mental sensorium, and hemoptysis. Chest tomography showed air space consolidation with multiple nodules in the left upper and middle lobe sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage cultures were positive for Aspergillus flavus. The patient showed improvement with voriconazole and therapy was continued for 6 weeks.
Keywords:Dengue fever   fungal pneumonia   invasive pulmonary aspergillosis
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