Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a patient presenting with idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome.

[systemic capillary leak syndrome]

A 54 -year -old man presented to our emergency department with fever and dyspnoea . He required vigorous haemodynamic support and mechanical ventilation for hypotensive distributive shock with hypoalbuminaemia , haemoconcentration , rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure , consistent with idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome . Left lung consolidation and hypoxaemia were observed 6 days after admission . Sputum smear revealed the presence of acute angled branching hyphae , consistent with a diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis . Antifungal therapy was administered and mechanical ventilation discontinued on day 66 . The patient recovered and was discharged from the hospital on day 185 .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "fever" symptom

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

acute rheumatic fever

alexander disease

allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

canavan disease

carcinoma of the gallbladder

child syndrome

congenital toxoplasmosis

cushing syndrome

cystinuria

dracunculiasis

erdheim-chester disease

esophageal adenocarcinoma

esophageal carcinoma

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

hodgkin lymphoma, classical

lamellar ichthyosis

legionellosis

locked-in syndrome

malignant atrophic papulosis

neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy

neuralgic amyotrophy

oculocutaneous albinism

papillon-lefèvre syndrome

pyomyositis

pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

scrub typhus

severe combined immunodeficiency

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

triple a syndrome

typhoid

waldenström macroglobulinemia

wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated