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Chest, Vol 78, 667-669, Copyright © 1980 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Corticosteroids and malnutrition. Aspergillus lung abscess in an asthmatic child

JR Morton, LS Mihalas, P Leung and DJ Strieder

An adolescent developed invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in the limited form of a lung abscess. She had a weak immunologic response to the infection. Her depressed immunity was the result of prolonged corticosteroid therapy, compounded by malnutrition. In spite of this and other complications of corticosteroids, she made a full recovery from the fungal infection following treatment with amphotericin B and surgical excision of the lung abscess.




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