title: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient with severe dengue fever.
abstract: We report a case of a 65-year-old female diagnosed with sever dengue fever. She started showing recovery from dengue fever with medical management. On day 6 of admission, she had leukocytosis, altered mental sensorium, and hemoptysis. Chest tomography showed air space consolidation with multiple nodules in the left upper and middle lobe sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage cultures were positive for Aspergillus flavus. The patient showed improvement with voriconazole and therapy was continued for 6 weeks.
authors.affiliation: Consultant and Coordinator, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Prashant
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nasa
authors.affiliation: Attending Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Rohit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Nagrani
authors.affiliation: Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raina
authors.affiliation: Consultant, Department of Nephrology, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Ankur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Attending Consultant, Department of Microbiology, Max Superspeciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Shakti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
keywords: Dengue fever; fungal pneumonia; invasive pulmonary aspergillosis