Disseminated histoplasmosis as a presenting manifestation in an HIV patient - A case report from South India. 2022

G Anu Kiruba Devi, and Remya Raj Rajamohanan, and Vinupriya Sakkaravarthi, and Pampa Ch Toi, and Malathi Munisamy
Department of Dermatology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kalapet, Puducherry, India.

Histoplasmosis has heterogenous clinical presentation ranging from mild and self-limiting respiratory disease to disseminated forms with high mortality. In progressive disseminated histoplasmosis (PDH), patient presents with fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, adrenal enlargement, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and non-specific mucocutaneous lesions, usually in late stage of HIV. Cutaneous involvement is upto 25% in PDH which are papules, plaques, nodules and ulcers. Forty-two year old male, recently diagnosed as HIV positive presented with complaints of multiple painful ulcerated lesions over face, neck, tongue, arms, trunk & genitalia. Skin Biopsy was suggestive of histoplasmosis. Patient showed excellent response with amphotericin B and itraconazole. Since histoplasmosis is relatively uncommon, there should be a high-index of suspicion when an HIV patient presents with disseminated skin lesions.

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