Table 1.
Comparison of cases of miliary histoplasmosis.
Year | Reference | Age (yrs) | Sex | Comorbidities | Symptoms | Chest imaging | Initial diagnosis | Final diagnosis | Method of diagnosis | Outcome |
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1983 | Tong et al. [12] | 45 | F | None | Progressive weight loss, abdominal swelling, intermittent fever, nocturnal sweating | Chest X-ray: diffuse pulmonary miliary shadows with scattered nodular lesions | Miliary tuberculosis | Disseminated histoplasmosis with pulmonary involvement | Autopsy | Death |
2012 | Cormier et al. [13] | 37 | M | None | Fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, asthenia | Chest X-ray: diffuse bilateral opacities with a 1-2 mm radius simulating miliary tuberculosis | Miliary tuberculosis | Disseminated histoplasmosis with pulmonary involvement | BAL | Death |
2013 | Cottle et al. [14] 13 students with respiratory symptoms. 5 with confirmed histoplasmosis. 2 cases described here | 22 | F | None | Fever, dry cough, chest pain, shortness of breath with exertion | Chest X-ray: diffuse miliary shadowing | Miliary tuberculosis | Pulmonary histoplasmosis | Serum antibodies | |
21 | M | None | Productive cough, shortness of breath, night sweats | CT: mediastinal lymphadenopathy, bibasilar consolidation, bilateral pulmonary micronodules | Miliary tuberculosis | Pulmonary histoplasmosis | Serum antibodies | Survived | ||
2015 | Lakshman et al. [15] | 25 | F | HIV | Fevers, chills, cough, hematemesis, melena | CT: miliary nodules in both lungs | Disseminated tuberculosis | Disseminated histoplasmosis with pulmonary involvement | Bone marrow biopsy | Survived |
2017 | Our case | 52 | M | RA | Fevers, chills, cough, fatigue, night sweats, nausea, vomiting | CT: diffuse micronodularity | Miliary coccidioidomycosis | Miliary histoplasmosis | Left upper lobe tissue culture | Survived |