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Histoplasmosis

ბოლო მიმოხილვა: 18 Aug 2025
ბოლო განახლება: 19 Aug 2025

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ძირითადი დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • presence of risk factors
  • fever
  • headache
  • dyspnoea
  • dry or non-productive cough
  • pleuritic chest pain
  • anorexia
  • productive cough
სრული ტექსტი

სხვა დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • abdominal pain
  • fatigue
  • malaise
  • arthralgias
  • weight loss
  • hepatosplenomegaly
  • scattered crackles on chest auscultation
  • bronchial breathing on chest auscultation
  • distant breath sounds on chest auscultation
  • haemoptysis
  • meningitis-like symptoms
  • skin lesions
  • gastrointestinal symptoms
  • sepsis-like syndrome
სრული ტექსტი

რისკფაქტორები

  • exposure to fungus
  • emphysema
  • HIV infection
  • treatment with tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha antagonists
  • treatment with corticosteroids
  • treatment with immunosuppressants
  • neutropenia
  • stem cell and solid organ transplant
  • graft-versus-host disease
სრული ტექსტი

დიაგნოსტიკური კვლევები

1-ად შესაკვეთი გამოკვლევები

  • chest x-ray
  • culture
  • antigen testing
  • serology (immunodiffusion precipitin test)
  • serology (complement fixation assay)
  • serology (enzyme immunoassay)
  • CT scan of chest
  • FBC
  • LFTs
სრული ტექსტი

გასათვალისწინებელი კვლევები

  • tissue biopsy
სრული ტექსტი

მკურნალობის ალგორითმი

მწვავე

latent asymptomatic disease (non-pregnant)

acute pulmonary disease (non-pregnant)

chronic pulmonary disease (non-pregnant)

disseminated disease (non-pregnant)

mediastinal granuloma (non-pregnant)

mediastinal fibrosis (non-pregnant)

broncholithiasis (non-pregnant)

pericarditis (non-pregnant)

rheumatological syndrome (non-pregnant)

meningoencephalitis (non-pregnant)

pregnant

კონტრიბუტორები

ავტორები

Zainab A. Malik, MD, MS, FAAP

Consultant

Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Mediclinic City Hospital

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

გაფრთხილება:

ZAM has received speakers' honoraria from Merck-MSD.

David L. Goldman, MD

Associate Professor

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

New York

NY

გაფრთხილება:

DLG declares that he has no competing interests.

რეცენზენტები

Kassem Hammoud, MD

Associate Professor

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Kansas Health System

Kansas City

MI

გაფრთხილება:

KH declares that he has no competing interests.

Adriana M. Rauseo, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

Washington University in St Louis

St Louis

MI

Disclosures

AMR declares that she has no competing interests.

Paul Roberts, MD

Assistant Professor

Family Medicine

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville

FL

Disclosures

PR declares that he has no competing interests.

Janak Koirala, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Springfield

IL

Disclosures

JK declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Wheat LJ, Freifeld AG, Kleiman MB, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with histoplasmosis: 2007 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Oct 1;45(7):807-25.Full text  Abstract

Thompson GR 3rd, Le T, Chindamporn A, et al. Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of the endemic mycoses: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Dec;21(12):e364-74.Full text  Abstract

National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV Medicine Association, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Panel on Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV. Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in adults and adolescents with HIV: histoplasmosis. Oct 2024 [internet publication].Full text

Hage CA, Carmona EM, Epelbaum O, et al. Microbiological laboratory testing in the diagnosis of fungal infections in pulmonary and critical care practice. An official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Sep 1;200(5):535-50.Full text  Abstract

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