Aspergillosis is not only the problem increasing the freguency for recent decades but also a serious one. Coexistent pulmonary diseases are frequent and the most common antecedent disease is Tuberculosis with healed cavitary lesion.
Interest of the surgeons is aroused because of it's predilection to sudden life-threatening, exsanguinating pulmonary hemorrhage.
11 patients with pulmonary aspergillosis evaluated at this hospital in a 7-year period, and the results were as follows:
1. male to female ratio was 1:1.75.
2. The most common symptom was gross or microscopic hemoptysis(72.7%) and other symptoms were chest pain(9.1%) and chronic productive coughing(9.1%).
3. The right upper lobe was most common involving site(81.8%)
4. Surgical interventions were 8 cases of lobectomy, 1 case of lobectomy with wedge resection, 2 cases of wedge resection.
5. Post-operative complications developed in 5 patients and were 4 cases of wound infections, 2 cases of empyemas, 1 case of bleeding, 1 case of atelectasis. (Korean J Thoracic Cardiovas Surg 1994; 27:380-383)
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