Thoracoscopic pneumonectomy in management of histoplasmosis and fibrosing mediastinitis.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.093.
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Abstract
Pulmonary histoplasmosis is generally a self-limited respiratory illness in endemic areas. Fibrosing mediastinitis is a severe chronic complication of pulmonary histoplasmosis in which pulmonary vessels and airways can be compressed with the potential for life-threatening implications. We present a 50-year-old male patient who presented with a total occlusion of the left pulmonary artery due to fibrosing mediastinitis.
Medical subject headings
- Histoplasmosis
- Mediastinitis
- Pneumonectomy
- Sclerosis
- Thoracoscopy