Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Aspergillosis - allergic bronchopulmonary; Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; ABPA
Symptoms
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Cough may produce brownish plugs orbloody sputum - Fever
- Generalized weakness
Wheezing - Worsening symptoms of
asthma
Signs and tests
- Aspergillus antigen skin test
- Bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy
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CBC with peripheral eosinophil (a type of white blood cell) count Chest x-ray - CT scan - chest
- Lung biopsy (rare)
- Serum aspergillus
antibodies - Serum IgG and IgE antibodies
- Sputum stain and culture for fungus
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Pulmonary aspergillosis Treatment
Review Date: 05/19/2008
Reviewed By: Sean O. Stitham, MD, private practice in Internal Medicine,
Seattle, WA; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of
Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital.. Review
provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David
Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
