CASE REPORT: PATIENTS WITH PARACOCCIDIODOMYCOSIS AND ICTERIC SYNDROME

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.159582528018

• Palavras-chave: paracoccidioidomycosis; cholestasis; jaundice.

• Keywords: paracoccidioidomycosis; cholestasis; jaundice.

• Abstract:

  Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic disease caused by the fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Its endemic area is the Brazilian countryside and its mortality rate is 1.45 per million inhabitants. This study presented 3 clinical cases of the disease in 2023, treated at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Passos-Mg. The patients complained of fever, cervical, axillary and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Laboratory and imaging tests were carried out, but in all three cases the diagnosis was established by lymph node biopsies. One point to be highlighted in the research is that all the cases presented come from the urban area of the city of Passos-Mg, so greater attention is needed to possible changes in the epidemiological profile of the aforementioned disease.