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Chest, Vol 93, 916-921, Copyright © 1988 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Histoplasmosis in patients at risk for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in a nonendemic setting

SH Salzman, RL Smith and CP Aranda
Bellevue Chest Service, New York Veterans Administration Medical Center, New York.

We reviewed 18 cases of histoplasmosis in patients at risk for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome seen at two New York City hospitals in the past 3 1/2 years. Seventeen patients were Hispanic, including 13 born in Puerto Rico and three in South America. Clinical presentation was subacute, with high fever, weight loss, and mild respiratory symptoms with well-maintained gas exchange. Five patients had normal chest roentgenograms. The most common chest roentgenographic abnormality was diffuse small nodules. A rapid diagnosis was established histologically in 72 percent of patients, most commonly by transbronchial lung biopsy; cultures were positive in 94 percent of patients while serology was positive in five of six patients. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was a concurrent, often unrecognized, pathogen in six cases. Most patients responded to amphotericin therapy. Histoplasmosis may represent an early sign of altered host immunity in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.


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