title: Treatment of pulmonary sporotrichosis with ketoconazole.
abstract: Antifungal therapy that included ketoconazole failed in a 44-year-old woman with pulmonary sporotrichosis progressing slowly over a seven-year period. On the basis of this case and the modest amount of experience reported in the literature, ketoconazole does not appear to be effective in the treatment of pulmonary sporotrichosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dall
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salzman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000666:Amphotericin B / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D007654:Ketoconazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D013174:Sporotrichosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000666:Amphotericin B; D007654:Ketoconazole