Abstract

SANABRIA PENA, Claudia Liliana; ALARCON TARAZONA, Martha Liliana; ALARCON, Ismael Enrique  and  JAIMES DAZA, María Fernanda. Paracoccidioidomycosis. A multisystemic disease. Acta Med Colomb [online]. 2018, vol.43, n.2, pp.111-114. ISSN 0120-2448.

Paracoccidioidomycosis is a chronic, systemic and progressive disease which is described only in Latin America. Its chronic and multifocal clinical presentation is the most prevalent, affecting mainly adult men and compromising mainly lungs; however, it can spread to any organ generating multiple complications in the patient. The case of an immunocompetent male patient, coffee grower, who debuted with compromise of the adrenal gland and in who subsequently pulmonary involvement was documented, is presented. The diagnosis was confirmed by biopsy of lesions in the adrenal gland, agar gel immunodiffusion and polymerase chain reaction, which showed compromise by Paracoccidioides brasilensis. (Acta Med Colomb 2018; 43: 111-114).

Keywords : Paracoccidioides; fungemia; azoles; adrenal insufficiency; pulmonary mycosis.

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