Chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis in Brazil: report of two cases with cavitation diagnosed by transthoracic needle biopsy

Abstract

Two cases of Chronic Pulmonary Histoplasmosis are reported and other eleven cases, collected from Brazilian literature, are commented. After being clinically cured, one of our patients presented an Aspergillus fungus ball inside a cavitation in the wall of which H. capsulatum was disclosed. Comments are also done on the diagnosis of the mycosis

Keywords

• Histoplasmosis
• Histoplasma capsulatum
• Lung
• Cavitation
• Aspergillus fumigatus
• Fungus ball
• Transthoracic biopsy