A 60-year-old resident of Pennsylvania complained of hoarseness for several weeks, then spoke with a sharp hoarseness for several months, began to complain of shortness of breath.
Doctors treated the man for asthma with inhaled steroids for a year, but the symptoms did not go away. The medical history of the man was described by the doctors in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.
– A healthy 60-year-old man came to the clinic with complaints of progressive hoarseness and shortness of breath for 1 year, – the doctor of medicine described the clinical case Jeff Wong. – The patient assured that he had no problems with swallowing, did not worry about sore throat, cough and heartburn, did not have a fever and did not lose weight for no reason. The man also never smoked, had no throat or neck surgery, and was not exposed to radiation. Externally, the patient’s neck and throat looked quite healthy.
To examine the vocal cords and larynx of a man, doctors used a research method such as video stroboscopy. It turned out that the patient had severe edema, which caused the narrowing of the airways.
The man’s larynx was swollen, irregularly shaped, and “loose”. Doctors did a biopsy – areas of dead cells and a fungus were found in the tissue Blastomyces dermatitidiswhich the causes blastomycosis.
This fungus thrives outdoors, usually in moist soil and decaying wood and leaves.