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Arch Bronconeumol
; 44(10): 567-70, 2008 Oct.
Artículo
en Español
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19006637
RESUMEN
We report the case of a Spanish nonimmunosuppressed patient who was a chronic alcoholic and who developed chronic cavitary pulmonary histoplasmosis. He had been living in Venezuela until 10 years ago. The diagnosis was established when Histoplasma capsulatum was cultured from bronchoscopy samples. The patient was treated with itraconazole and progressed favorably until cure. This case suggests that histoplasmosis can reactivate years after exposure, even when significant immunodeficiency is not present. In the absence of another immunosuppressive factor, alcoholism may have played a role in the development of the condition.