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Asthma’s mortality can be as high as 50 to 55pc
Hyderabad— Allergic BronchoPulmonary Aspergillosis
is an allergic lung reaction to a type of fungus that occurs in some
people with asthma or cystic fibrosis, causing cough and wheezing
and sometimes fever and if untreated, chronic lung damage may
develop.
Pulmonolisit Dr.Rashid Ahmed Khan talking to APP here Thursday said
that approximately 10 percent of mycetomas resolve spontaneously.
He said that the mortality rate in these patients can be as high as
50-55 percent compared with a 1-23 percent surgical mortality rate.
He said that the fungus Aspergillus fumigates flourishes in soil,
decaying vegetation, foods, dusts, and water.
Dr.Khan said that certain people who inhale the fungus may become
sensitized and develop a chronic allergic reaction and other fungi,
including Penicillium, Candida and Curvularia, can cause an
identical illness and in some people, the effects of the allergic
reaction combine with the effects of the fungus to damage the
airways and lungs.
He said that the pulmonary Aspergillosis is an allergic reaction to
a fungus called aspergillus, which causes inflammation of the
airways and air sacs of the lungs and it defined the Aspergillosis -
allergic BronchoPulmonary; Allergic BronchoPulmonary Aspergillosis,
ABPA, he added. Dr.Rashid said about the ABPA disease that the
Aspergillus fungus is common and it can grow on dead leaves, stored
grain, bird droppings, compost stacks and other decaying vegetation
although most people are frequently exposed to Aspergillus,
infections caused by it such as a pneumonia or fungus ball are rare,
he added. He said that the disease may mimic asthma or pneumonia,
and, in fact, most patients with ABPA have asthma as well. He said
that the patients with asthma or cystic fibrosis are at highest risk
for allergic Aspergillosis including worsening symptoms of
asthma.—APP
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