Volumen: 19 # Number : 3
Publication Date : Septiembre - Diciembre Year: 2015
Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with HIV
and diagnosis by blood smear
Authors: Langton S., Fernández A., Quijano S., García A., Galván G.,
Moscatelli M., Beligoy L.
Abstract: We report the case of a 56 year old male with newly
diagnosed HIV infection, consulting for fever
and epigastric pain with heartburn, nausea and
abdominal bloating.
As an immunosuppressed patient with fever of
unknown origin a differential diagnosis was non-
Hodgkin Lymphoma, so a consultation to the
Hematology Service was done. In the blood smear
yeast elements compatible with Histoplasma
capsulatum were observed inside and outside the
neutrophils.
In the following days the patient presented renal
failure, liver damage, evolved to septic shock and
died in the fifth day of admission.
Key words: disseminated histoplamosis,
HIV,
blood smear
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