PROGRESSIVE DISSEMINATED HISTOPLASMOSIS 10 YEARS AFTER RETURN OUT OF AFRICA IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT HOST
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Clinica Belgica
- Vol. 59 (5) , 274-278
- https://doi.org/10.1179/acb.2004.040
Abstract
We report on a patient without immunologic dysfunction who developed a reactivation of a latent histoplasma infection, acquired during a previous stay in Africa more than 10 years before. The current reactivation resulted in a subacute progressive disseminated histoplasmosis. He developed progressive weight loss, prostration and different oropharyngeal lesions together with bilateral adrenal masses on CT scan. The diagnosis was made on histology of biopsies of the oropharyngeal lesions. All systemic symptoms normalised, the oropharyngeal lesions disappeared and the adrenal masses regressed under amphotericin B therapy followed by itraconazole consolidation therapy.Keywords
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