[Epidural aspergillosis secondary to lung aspergilloma despite long-term itraconazole treatment]

Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot. 2001 Oct;87(6):596-600.
[Article in French]

Abstract

A 58-year-old man developed spinal cord compression at the T2-T3 level due to an Aspergillus epidural abscess. This presumably immunocompetent patient had been treated for two years by oral itraconazole (200 mg/day) for a lung aspergilloma that occurred seven years after removal of a lung adenocarcinoma. Surgical debridement was performed via a wide posterior approach associated with high-dose amphotericin B. Five months later, the patient's neurological deficit had not improved and the patient died from respiratory failure. Despite a long-term treatment with itraconazole, the infection spread locally from a lung aspergilloma to the epidural space.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Aspergillosis / complications*
  • Aspergillosis / drug therapy
  • Aspergillus fumigatus*
  • Epidural Abscess / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Itraconazole / therapeutic use*
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / complications*
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Thoracic Vertebrae*
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Failure

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Itraconazole