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Respirol Case Rep
December 2023
Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine Kurume University School of Medicine Kurume Japan.
Cryptococcosis typically manifests as pulmonary lesions, with endobronchial lesions occurring rarely. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) may be a risk factor for cryptococcosis of the larynx but not of the bronchi. Here, we report a case involving a 73-year-old Japanese man who developed endobronchial cryptococcosis during ICS treatment for asthma.
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October 2023
Queensland Centre for Otolaryngology and Voice, Level 7, 457 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill, QLD 4000, Australia.
Objectives: To present three case reports of cryptococcal laryngitis managed with potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser, where only one case managed with KTP laser has previously been published to date to our knowledge. Further, to systematically review the medical literature and describe the epidemiology, clinical assessment, treatment, and prognosis of laryngeal cryptococcosis.
Methods: The PubMed, Embase, and OVID MEDLINE databases were searched using the terms "cryptococcal laryngitis" or "cryptococcus" and "larynx or laryngeal.
Nagoya J Med Sci
November 2022
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Primary laryngeal cryptococcosis is an extremely rare infection and presents with non-specific symptoms such as hoarseness or sore throat, resulting in delayed diagnosis. Here, we report the patient of a 56-year-old female patient with primary laryngeal cryptococcosis, who was being treated with oral and inhaled steroids for rheumatoid arthritis and bronchial asthma. The patient suffered from prolonged hoarseness and sore throat, and endoscopic biopsy was performed several times under local anesthesia, demonstrating only inflammatory cell infiltration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Clin Microbiol Antimicrob
February 2022
Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan.
Intern Med
September 2021
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Iizuka Hospital, Japan.
Laryngeal and endobronchial cryptococcosis are rare conditions, and to our knowledge, there have been only 23 cases of laryngeal cryptococcosis, and 18 cases of endobronchial cryptococcosis previously reported in the English literature. We herein report an extremely rare case of cryptococcosis with simultaneous laryngeal and endobronchial involvement. This case highlights the importance of paying close attention to possible occurrence of cryptococcosis of the airway tract in patients with asthma treated with high-dose inhaled corticosteroids.
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