Paradoxical reaction to treatment in 2 patients with severe acute paracoccidioidomycosis: a previously unreported complication and its management with corticosteroids.
case_series · Level IV
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Abstract
Paradoxical reactions have never been described in patients with paracoccidioidomycosis or other deep endemic mycoses out of the context of human immunodeficiency virus infection. We describe 2 patients with an acute form of paracoccidioidomycosis who presented with a worsening of their clinical manifestations while on appropriate antifungal treatment. These manifestations were severe and required adjunct corticosteroid therapy.
Medical subject headings
- Adrenal Cortex Hormones
- Antifungal Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
- Paracoccidioidomycosis