Histoplasmosis presenting with progressively worsening backache - A case report

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 656-658

  Lachmanan, Suresh R ^a   Haniza, O ^b   Hisham, A N ^b   Subramaniam, J ^b   Merican, I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bilateral adrenal masses; Histoplasmosis; Itraconazole; Low back pain; Palatal nodules

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEVER; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; TRAVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0035694479     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Davies S F, Khan M, Sarosi G A. Disseminated histoplasmosis in immunologically suppressed patients. Am J Med 1978; 64:94-100.
2. Goodwin R A, Shapiro J L, Thurman G H, Thurman S S, Desperez R M. Disseminated histoplasmosis: clinical and pathological correlations. Medicine (Baltimore) 1980; 59:1-33.
3. Sarosi G A, Voth D W, Dahl B A, Doto I L, Tosh F E. Disseminated histoplasmosis: results of long term follow-up. Ann Intern Med 1971; 75:511-6.
4. Gibb W R G, Ramsay A D, McNeil N I, Wrong O M. Bilateral adrenal masses. BMJ 1985; 291:203-4
5. Slama T G. Treatment of disseminated and progressive cavitary histoplasmosis with ketoconazole. Am J Med 1983; 74:70-3.
6. Negroni R, Palmieri O, Koren F, Tiraboschi I N, Galimberti R L. Oral treatment of paracoccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis with itraconazole in humans. Rev Infect Dis (Suppl) 1987; 9:S47-50.
7. Jackson A C, William E D. Oral azole therapy as systemic antifungal therapy. N Engl J Med 1994; 330:263-72.
8. Wheat L J, Hafner R, Wulfsohn M, Spencer P, Squires K, Powderly W, et al. Prevention of relapse of histoplasmosis with itraconazole in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials and Mycoses Study Group Collaborators. Ann Intern Med 1993; 118:610-6.
9. Wang T L, Cheah J S, Holmberg K. Case report and review of disseminated histoplasmosis in South-East Asia: clinical and epidemiological implications. Trop Med Int Health 1996; 1:35-42.