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Scedosporium prolificans is an emerging fungus that causes rapid progressive and disseminated infections in immunodepressed patients. We present a case of a 34-year-old woman with chronic myelogeneous leukemia who received a bone marrow transplantation and suffered a sudden respiratory failure in +67 day. Chest radiographies showed growing bilateral patchy condensations. Computed Tomography depicted bilateral nodular condensation of alveolar space. S. prolificans was detected from sputum, but the patient died 72 h later. Imaging findings of lung scedosporiosis are nonspecific, but CT may provide a prompter diagnosis and allow to add newer antifungal treatments. This report presents the first imaging report of lung scedosporiosis.
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Pellón Dabén, R., Marco de Lucas, E., Martín Cuesta, L. et al. Imaging findings of pulmonary infection caused by Scedosporium prolificans in a deep immunocompromised patient’. Emerg Radiol 15, 47–49 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-007-0634-9
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