Post-COVID-19 chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent woman with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis: a case report
Marius Paulin Ngouanom Kuate, Felix Bongomin
Abstract
Previously treated pulmonary tuberculosis and Corona Virus Disease -2019 predispose to CPA and other pulmonary fungal diseases due to residual lung damage. We report a case of CPA in a 63-years-old Cameroonian woman with a history of PTB, 13 months after suffering from COVID-19 and treated with itraconazole 100mg.
MeSH terms
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Medicine
- Itraconazole
- Pulmonary aspergillosis
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Tuberculosis
- Pulmonary disease
- Lung
- Dermatology
- Disease
- Virology
- Pathology