Fulminant pulmonary aspergillus infection occluding the aortic arch after high-dose antileukemic chemotherapy.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
After antileukemic chemotherapy a granulocytopenic patient experienced a rapidly progressive left-sided pneumonia with pleuritic pain. After 1 week, a sudden occlusion of all aortic branches was followed by death. At postmortem, a huge thrombus in the aortic arch caused by Aspergillus invasion from the left lung was found.
Medical subject headings
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Aortic Diseases
- Aspergillosis
- Leukemia
- Lung Diseases, Fungal
- Thrombosis