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Pulmonary Giant Cavitary Coccidioides With Fungal Ball and Hemoptysis

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Coccidioidomycosis (CM) is a fungal disease that results from inhalation of spores of Coccidioides immitis and C posadasii . If symptomatic, disease primarily manifests as community-acquired pneumonia; however, additional pulmonary manifestations such as
Vishal K. Narang MD, Kevin Dao BS, Sara Jaratanian MD, Carlos D’Assumpcao MD, Rasha Kuran MD, Augustine Munoz MD, Arash Heidari MD, FACP, FIDSA   +6 more
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Coccidioidal Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis: A Case Report

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2021
Coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by inhalation of arthroconidia of Coccidioides . Forty percent of patients will develop mild and self-limited respiratory infection, and a small fraction of these individuals will develop extrapulmonary ...
Nadia Raza MD, Faisal Nasrawi MD, Arash Heidari MD, Rasha Kuran MD, Navinchandra Amin MD, Royce Johnson MD   +5 more
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Reactivation of Coccidioidomycosis in a Mouse Model of Asymptomatic Controlled Disease

Journal of Fungi, 2022
The majority of human coccidioidomycosis infections are asymptomatic or self-limited but may have sequestered spherules in highly structured granulomas. Under immunosuppression, reactivation of fungal growth can result in severe disease.
Lisa F. Shubitz, Daniel A. Powell, Sharon M. Dial, Christine D. Butkiewicz, Hien T. Trinh, Amy P. Hsu, Adam Buntzman, Jeffrey A. Frelinger, John N. Galgiani   +8 more
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Vaccine Protection of Mice With Primary Immunodeficiencies Against Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
Disseminated coccidioidomycosis (DCM), often a severe and refractory disease leading to poor outcomes, is a risk for people with certain primary immunodeficiencies (PID).
Daniel A. Powell, Daniel A. Powell, Amy P. Hsu, Christine D. Butkiewicz, Hien T. Trinh, Jeffrey A. Frelinger, Steven M. Holland, John N. Galgiani, John N. Galgiani, Lisa F. Shubitz   +9 more
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Two Cases of Miliary and Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis Following Glucocorticoid Therapy and Literature Review

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
A 49-year-old man with no significant past medical history received dexamethasone as part of his treatment for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
Rowis Sous MS4, Yuliya Levkiavska MD, Rupam Sharma MD, Roopam Jariwal MD, Daniela Amodio MD, Royce H. Johnson MD, Arash Heidari MD, Rasha Kuran MD   +7 more
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When You “Can’t See” a Case of Relapsing Polychondritis

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2021
Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare and, if not treated, potentially lethal autoimmune disorder. Involvement of central nervous system (CNS) in RP is rare and, when present, makes it extremely difficult to diagnose.
David Contreras MD, Navpreet Dhillon BS, Rupam Sharma MD, Varun Bali MD, Sabetian Katayon MD, Bao Quynh Huynh MD, Arash Heidari MD   +6 more
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What You See Is Not What You Get: Germ Cell Tumor Mimicking Disseminated Coccidioidomycosis

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2023
We present the case of a 30-year-old man with no prior medical history who presented to the hospital with a myriad of symptoms such as shortness of breath, generalized weakness, lower limb weakness, and urinary retention.
Haidar Hajeh MD, Hazem Aboaid MD, Kasey Fox DO, Everardo Cobos MD, Arash Heidari MD   +4 more
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Vaccines to Prevent Coccidioidomycosis: A Gene-Deletion Mutant of Coccidioides Posadasii as a Viable Candidate for Human Trials

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Coccidioidomycosis is an endemic fungal infection that is reported in up to 20,000 persons per year and has an economic impact close to $1.5 billion. Natural infection virtually always confers protection from future exposure, and this suggests that a ...
John N. Galgiani, Lisa F. Shubitz, Marc J. Orbach, M. Alejandra Mandel, Daniel A. Powell, Bruce S. Klein, Edward J. Robb, Mana Ohkura, Devin J. Seka, Thomas M. Tomasiak, Thomas P. Monath   +10 more
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Posaconazole treatment of refractory coccidioidomycosis in dogs

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2021
Background The majority of dogs with coccidioidomycosis recover with administration of fluconazole or itraconazole, although some cases are refractory or the dogs do not tolerate administration of these medications.
Lisa F. Shubitz, Sallianne Schlacks, Polina Vishkautsan, Christine D. Butkiewicz, Kate A. Worthing   +4 more
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A Case of Thyroidal Coccidioidal Infection

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Infection of the thyroid gland with Coccidioides immitis is rare. We report a case with disseminated coccidiomycosis involving thyroid gland as a thyroid nodule.
Nadia Raza MD, Arash Heidari MD
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