
Episode 49: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis with Shmuel Shoham
Critical Care Scenarios
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Gluken Is a Non Specific Test for Fungi Infections?
Soserum galactiman is very specific for an envasive fungle infection, most likely from astigulosis a bel. Galactman is veryspecific for aspogillus in the air way. And then you have to put on your doctor hand say, ok, is the aspagillus just in the airway, or is it invading and causing the problem? Ok? Now, just at this point when fungl infection was raised, but we don't know much more yet, what specific fungl infections are you most con so in the lung,. It would be aspragillus and a perhaps other filament, isa fungi, a potentially histoplasmosis
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