Soon after, he developed fever with pulmonary nodules. Fine-needle aspiration from lung nodules showed intracellular yeast forms of histoplasma. The patient responded well to amphotericin B with subsidence of fever. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The patient visited our hospital with dyspnea, blood-tinged sputum, and weight loss, which had appeared 2 months earlier. The patient underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lung biopsy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

When to Call Your Health Care Provider Call your health care provider right away if you have any of the following: Fever Chest pain Coughing up blood Shortness of breath Extreme tiredness Loss of appetite and weight loss Symptoms that don’t get better [sterlingcare.com]

When to call your healthcare provider Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following: Fever Chest pain Coughing up blood Shortness of breath Extreme tiredness Loss of appetite and weight loss Symptoms that don’t get better with [fairview.org]

When to call your healthcare provider Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following: Fever Chest pain Coughing up blood Shortness of breath Extreme tiredness Loss of appetite and weight loss Symptoms that don't get better with [mountnittany.org]

Malaise, fatigability, low-grade fever, aching chest pain and mild cough lasting a few days to a few weeks are usual. Symptoms are ameliorated by rest. Rest and diminished activity are recommended as treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] interrogated in the history should include travel to endemic areas as well as exposures significant populations of bats and birds. acute pulmonary histoplasmosis 90% of cases can have no symptoms symptoms manifest for up to two weeks after exposure fever, malaise [radiopaedia.org]

[…] pain, cough and other respiratory symptoms Skin lesions and joint pain occur in 5-6% of patients, mainly female Chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis Occurs mostly in patients with underlying lung disease Symptoms include coughing up blood, weight loss, malaise [dermnetnz.org]

Acute primary histoplasmosis is a syndrome with fever, cough, myalgias, chest pain, and malaise of varying severity. Acute pneumonia (evident on physical examination and chest x-ray) sometimes develops. [merckmanuals.com]

[…] include fever, headache, nonproductive cough, chills, pleuritic chest pain, weight loss, malaise, myalgias, and sweats. [aafp.org]

To our knowledge, this is the first case of a spindle cell "pseudotumor" of the lung resulting from histoplasmosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Case Presentation A 60-year-old female patient presented to the medical outpatient department with a history of a cough for more than two months, intermittent fever, and dyspnea on exertion. [cureus.com]

[…] self-limited in immunocompetent patients, but disseminates in immunocompromised (very young, very old, HIV ) to liver, spleen, bone marrow, nodes, lung, rarely to skin Disseminated disease: strongly associated with AIDS; patients have fever, weight loss, splenomegaly [pathologyoutlines.com]

Many dogs have a protracted course of weight loss to emaciation, chronic cough, persistent diarrhea, fever, anemia, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and nasopharyngeal and GI ulceration. [merckvetmanual.com]

[…] pulmonary fibrocavitary disease resembling tuberculosis; in immunosuppressed patients, and rarely, in otherwise healthy persons, histoplasmosis may cause disseminated disease of the reticuloendothelial system, which is manifested by fever, emaciation, splenomegaly [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

[…] consistency of the lungs Disseminated Form: Regional or generalized lymphadenopathy: Affected lymph nodes are firm and uniform in appearance, resembling lymphoma Intestines: Nodular thickening of mucosal surface, resembling Johne’s disease of cattle Splenomegaly [askjpc.org]

A wide spread of features may be found - fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, jaundice, leukopenia, chronic meningitis, endocarditis, granulomatous hepatitis, Addison’s disease and GIT ulceration. [ayubmed.edu.pk]

A 56-year-old Japanese man who had been in Bolivia for 2 years complained of a dry cough. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

If symptoms do occur, they may include: fever, chills, dry cough, and chest pain. Some people also have joint pain. [sterlingcare.com]

Infection with H capsulatum was confirmed by culture of pleural effusion fluid, DNA probe analysis of the pleural fluid culture isolate, urinary Histoplasma antigen detection, and Grocott methenamine silver stains of tissue sections. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ultrasound chest confirmed it to be a loculated pleural effusion. A pleural biopsy was arranged but it was not informative at all and the loculated pleural effusion could not be drained with the Abram’s needle. [ayubmed.edu.pk]

effusions are possible but uncommon healing process with formation of histoplasmomas, which are well-defined nodules with central calcifications Promoted articles (advertising) [radiopaedia.org]

Clinical manifestations depend on the immune status of the infected person and may present as acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, chronic cavitary pulmonary histoplasmosis, granulomatous mediastinitis, mediastinal fibrosis, pericarditis, pleural effusion, [cureus.com]

Few may get acute pericarditis and pleural effusions. As the severity of the disease increases, the prognosis worsens from fair to poor. [emedicinehealth.com]

As in our patient, the symptoms of malaise, productive cough, fever, and night sweats in pulmonary histoplasmosis are similar to those of TB but are usually less severe [ 4 ]. [jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com]

The presentation is similar to chronic pulmonary aspergillosis with productive cough, increasing shortness of breath, weight loss, night sweats and sometimes fever. [life-worldwide.org]

The signs and symptoms associated with Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis (in those having weak immunity) may include: Chest tightness Breathing difficulties Productive cough Fever Muscle pain, generalized body aches Skin rashes that usually occur on the [dovemed.com]

Some infections may cause acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, characterized by high fever, headache, non-productive cough, chills, weakness, pleuritic chest pain and fatigue. [who.int]

Another reported case of pulmonary histoplasmosis involves a 15 year old male patient with pulmonary tuberculosis who presented with chronic productive cough [ 28 ]. [mycology.imedpub.com]

[…] bats and birds. acute pulmonary histoplasmosis 90% of cases can have no symptoms symptoms manifest for up to two weeks after exposure fever, malaise, headache, myalgia, abdominal pain dyspnea can manifest if there is diffuse involvement a cough and hemoptysis [radiopaedia.org]

Smokers with structural lung disease have higher probability of developing chronic cavitary histoplasmosis. [ citation needed ] After healing of lesions, hard calcified lymph nodes can erode the walls of airway causing hemoptysis. [ citation needed ] [en.wikipedia.org]

Recurrent hemoptysis is a common symptom and respiratory failure often ensues. [antimicrobe.org]

arthritis) are possible sequelae following acute infections of pulmonary histoplasmosis ( Table 1 ). 4, 5 Actively inflamed mediastinal lymph nodes cause chest pain, cough, hemoptysis, and dyspnea because of airway or vascular compression, and the [aafp.org]

Once established, an infected cavity tends to persist and to be attended by symptoms of chronic bronchitis with chronic cough and sputum, fatigability, anorexia, and weight loss. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Many dogs have a protracted course of weight loss to emaciation, chronic cough, persistent diarrhea, fever, anemia, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, and nasopharyngeal and GI ulceration. [merckvetmanual.com]

A high ESR (62mm / 1 st hour), with three consecutive negative sputum samples for Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) and a clinical history of night sweats, weight loss and chronic cough with deteriorating health had convinced us to commence anti-tuberculous therapy [ayubmed.edu.pk]

They gave a history of fever, fatigue, myalgia, dry cough, and chest pain during the stay or just after returning from Ecuador. In two patients, symptoms persisted in mild nature. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

If symptoms do occur, they may include: fever, chills, dry cough, and chest pain. Some people also have joint pain. [sterlingcare.com]

Symptoms include feeling ill, fever, chest pains, and a dry cough. In severe cases, histoplasmosis spreads to other organs. This is called disseminated disease. [icdlist.com]

Exploring caves is, without doubt, a very exciting adventure; however, it carries some dangers. Three of four travellers were admitted to hospital with lung changes after returning from Ecuador, successively. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

She also developed new symptoms such as jerking involuntary movements in upper limbs, head ache and fatigue. She also reported falling school grades and visual disturbances. [mycology.imedpub.com]

Presenting symptoms Asthma like syndrome Pulmonary Difficulty in breathing (DIB), chest pain Allergy Reported allergy to perfumes, cooking smells and chemicals; Sensitized to weeds and House dust mite (HDM) Gastro-intestinal Dysphagia Neurology Headache, tingling [mycology.imedpub.com]

He was hypoxic with bilateral pulmonary opacities on chest radiograph. CT of the chest showed a geographical pattern of ground-glass attenuation. He started receiving intravenous antibiotics in addition to oral Bactrim for suspected PJ. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

There is also hypocapnia from alveolar hyperventilation commonly found in restrictive and stiff lung syndrome. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Infection with H capsulatum was confirmed by culture of pleural effusion fluid, DNA probe analysis of the pleural fluid culture isolate, urinary Histoplasma antigen detection, and Grocott methenamine silver stains of tissue sections. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Ultrasound chest confirmed it to be a loculated pleural effusion. A pleural biopsy was arranged but it was not informative at all and the loculated pleural effusion could not be drained with the Abram’s needle. [ayubmed.edu.pk]

effusions are possible but uncommon healing process with formation of histoplasmomas, which are well-defined nodules with central calcifications Promoted articles (advertising) [radiopaedia.org]

Clinical manifestations depend on the immune status of the infected person and may present as acute pulmonary histoplasmosis, chronic cavitary pulmonary histoplasmosis, granulomatous mediastinitis, mediastinal fibrosis, pericarditis, pleural effusion, [cureus.com]

Few may get acute pericarditis and pleural effusions. As the severity of the disease increases, the prognosis worsens from fair to poor. [emedicinehealth.com]