MARTA DABROWSKA, MAGDALENA DURLİK, MARTA MASKEY-WARZECHOWSKA, MİCHAL MAZURKİEWİCZ, NATALİA MİKOLAJCZYK-KORNİK, RAFAL KRENKE
Experimental and Clinical Transplantation - 2018;16(3):333-336
Early diagnosis of invasive pulmonary mycoses in immunocompromised patients is a major determinant of effective treatment. However, making a reliable diagnosis is challenging and often requires trans - bronchial or even surgical lung biopsy. We provide evidence that endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration may be an attractive, less invasive diagnostic method. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration was not only a diagnostic clue in the presented kidney transplant recipient with invasive pulmonary mycosis but was useful in assessment of treatment efficacy.
