Fever and multilobular mass of the right lung in a young adult with asthma

Adamantia Sotiriou; Nikolaos Koulouris; Petros Bakakos

doi:10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.12.001

Fever and multilobular mass of the right lung in a young adult with asthma

Med Mycol Case Rep. 2015 Dec 5:10:7-10. doi: 10.1016/j.mmcr.2015.12.001. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Adamantia Sotiriou¹, Nikolaos Koulouris¹, Petros Bakakos¹

Affiliation

¹ 1st University Department of Respiratory Medicine, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

We report a case of a 37-year-old mild asthmatic male presenting with fever, productive cough and chest pain. The chest x-ray showed a multilobular perihilar shadow of the right lung with a mass-like appearance, confirmed by the CT-scan. He was diagnosed with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). ABPA usually manifests as chronic asthma, recurrent pulmonary infiltrates and bronchiectasis. However, it can rarely be seen in patients with mild asthma and with an unusual radiological presentation of a solid mass.

Keywords: Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; Aspergillus fumigatus; Asthma.