Isolated Candida infection of the lung

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• 作者：Yousef Shweihat ; ^{shweihat@marshall.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; James Perry III¹ ; ^{perry126@marshall.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Darshana Shah ; ^{Shah@marshall.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Candida ; Pneumonia ; Immunodeficiency
• 刊名：Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：Complete
• 页码：18-19
• 全文大小：171 K

文摘

Candida pneumonia is a rare infection of the lungs, with the majority of cases occurring secondary to hematological dissemination of Candida organisms from a distant site, usually the gastrointestinal tract or skin. We report a case of a 77-year-old male who is life-long smoker with a history of rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica, but did not take immunosuppressants for those conditions. Here, we present an extremely rare case of isolated pulmonary parenchymal Candida infection in the form pulmonary nodules without evidence of systemic disease which has only been described in a few previous reports.