The Clinical Characteristics, Therapeutic Outcome and Prognostic Factors for Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A Single-Center Experience and Review of the Literature

A Case of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in an Immunocompetent Patient Diagnosed by EBUS-TBNA, Misdiagnosed as Lung Cancer.

“…The physical examination did not identify a right supraclavicular lymph node (LN) or right scalene LN. The peripheral blood leukocyte counts were 8970/mm 3 (66.5% neutrophils, 3.1% eosinophils, and 22.1% lymphocytes), and the platelet counts were 341,000/mm 3 . The blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine level were 21.1mg/dL and 0.34mg/dL, respectively.…”

“…Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) can be a life-threatening infectious disease for immunosuppressed patients receiving chemotherapy or recipients of stem cell transplantation (2). Early diagnosis is very challenging because IPA has similar clinical features to the usual respiratory infections (3). Clinically, identification of hyphae through a histological examination is considered the gold standard of IPA diagnosis.…”