Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Fungus ball; Mycetoma; Aspergilloma
Symptoms
Many patients have no symptoms. When symptoms do develop, they can include:
- Chest pain
Cough Coughing up blood - Fatigue
Fever Unintentional weight loss
Signs and tests
- Blood test for presence of aspergillus in the body (galactomannan)
- Blood test to detect antibodies to aspergillus (serum precipitins for aspergillus)
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Bronchoscopy or bronchoscopy with lavage Chest CT Chest x-ray Sputum culture
Images
Pulmonary aspergillosis
Aspergilloma
Pulmonary nodule - front view chest X-ray
Aspergillosis - chest X-ray
Lungs
Pulmonary nodule, solitary - CT scan
Respiratory system
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Pulmonary aspergilloma Treatment
Review Date: 09/15/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in
Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division
of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital. 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)
