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Hemoptysis due to fungus ball after tuberculosis: A series of 21 cases treated with hemostatic radiotherapy

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2015
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Title
Hemoptysis due to fungus ball after tuberculosis: A series of 21 cases treated with hemostatic radiotherapy
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BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12879-015-1288-y
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Lucas G Sapienza, Maria José L Gomes, Carmelindo Maliska, Antonio N Norberg

Abstract

In patients who are not amenable to surgical resection (cavernostomy), it is difficult to achieve palliation of hemoptysis from pulmonary aspergilloma. There are only 9 cases with a short follow-up that have reported the use of radiotherapy for hemoptysis in this scenario. A retrospective series of 21 patients with chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis were treated with radiotherapy (20 Gray) from 1990 to 2002. The outcome measures were the period from tuberculosis treatment to the onset of hemoptysis, hemoptysis resolution rate, change in Zubrod performance status after 30 days of the completion of radiotherapy, local failure-free survival, and overall survival. The median time between tuberculosis treatment and the onset of hemoptysis due to aspergilloma was 9 years. After radiotherapy, general status improved and the hemoptysis resolved in all patients. During the follow-up period, 4 failures occurred, with a 5-year local failure-free survival rate of 82 % and a 5-year overall survival rate of 59 %. Of these failures, 2 patients died due to recurrence of the hemoptysis, and 2 were rescued (using cavernostomy and reirradiation). The presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (p = 0.021) and female gender (p = 0.032) were negatively associated with overall survival. None of the variables was related to local control. Based on these long-term data, radiotherapy is a potential option for controlling bleeding due to fungus balls. Female patients and COPD were associated with lower survival.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 21%
Student > Master 8 14%
Student > Postgraduate 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Lecturer 4 7%
Other 12 21%
Unknown 12 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 48%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 14 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 January 2017.
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#4,653,632
of 22,834,308 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,518
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#78,440
of 387,189 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#40
of 152 outputs
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