Shweihat Yousef, Perry James, Shah Darshana
Marshall University, Joan. C. Edwards School of Medicine, USA.
Respir Med Case Rep. 2015 Mar 14;16:18-9. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.03.001. eCollection 2015.
Candida pneumonia is a rare infection of the lungs, with the majority of cases occurring secondary to hematological dissemination of Candida organisms from a distant site, usually the gastrointestinal tract or skin. We report a case of a 77-year-old male who is life-long smoker with a history of rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica, but did not take immunosuppressants for those conditions. Here, we present an extremely rare case of isolated pulmonary parenchymal Candida infection in the form pulmonary nodules without evidence of systemic disease which has only been described in a few previous reports.
念珠菌性肺炎是一种罕见的肺部感染，大多数病例继发于念珠菌从远处部位（通常是胃肠道或皮肤）的血液播散。我们报告一例77岁男性病例，该患者有长期吸烟史，患类风湿关节炎和风湿性多肌痛，但未因这些疾病服用免疫抑制剂。在此，我们呈现一例极其罕见的孤立性肺实质念珠菌感染病例，表现为肺结节，无全身疾病证据，此前仅有少数报告对此进行过描述。
