Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Yuping Li

Publications

• Case Report
  Fatal Recurrent Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A Rare Co-infection Case with Pulmonary Embolism in COPD
  Author(s): Shanshan Su, Ying Zhou, Yupeng Xie, Min Ye, Chengshui Chen and Yuping LiShanshan Su, Ying Zhou, Yupeng Xie, Min Ye, Chengshui Chen and Yuping Li
  
  Background: Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are becoming one of the main risk factors for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). Furthermore, COPD patients are at a high risk for pulmonary embolism (PE). Both these two conditions, when COPD is concomitant with IPA or PE, carry a poor prognosis. The coexistence of these three fatal diseases is rare. Case presentation: We report a case of recurrent IPA concomitant with PE in a 76-year-old male with GOLD 4 COPD, who presented as non-specific hypoxemia and dyspnea and did not respond to the antifungal therapy. This case shows that patients should be treated until resolution of all clinical and radiographic manifestations in case of reactivation and that 10 weeks of antifungal therapy may be inadequate. For the treatment failure.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000333

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