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Initial signs and symptoms of pulmonary blastomycosis mimic those of a viral upper respiratory tract infection. These findings typically include a dry, hacking, or productive cough (occasionally hemoptysis), pleuritic chest pain, fever, shaking, chills, night sweats, malaise, anorexia, weight loss, and arthralgia. It can progress to pneumonia.
Cutaneous blastomycosis causes small, painless, nonpruritic, and nondistinctive macules or papules on exposed body parts. These lesions become raised and reddened and occasionally progress to draining skin abscesses or fistulas.
Dissemination to the bone causes soft-tissue swelling, tenderness, and warmth over bony lesions, which generally occur in the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral regions; long bones of the legs; and, in children, the skull.
Genital dissemination produces painful swelling of the testes, epididymis, or prostate; deep perineal pain; pyuria; and hematuria. CNS dissemination, which usually only occurs in immunocompromised hosts, causes meningitis or cerebral abscesses with resulting decreased level of consciousness (LOC), lethargy, and change in mood or affect. Other forms of dissemination may result in Addison's disease (adrenal insufficiency), pericarditis, and arthritis.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Initial signs and symptoms of pulmonary blastomycosis mimic those of a viral upper respiratory tract infection. These findings typically include pleuritic chest pain, fever, shaking, chills, night sweats, malaise, anorexia, weight loss, and a dry, hacking, or productive cough (occasionally hemoptysis).
❑ Cutaneous blastomycosis causes small, painless, nonpruritic, and nondistinctive macules or papules on exposed body parts. These lesions become raised and reddened and occasionally progress to draining skin abscesses or fistulas.
❑ Skeletal involvement causes soft-tissue swelling, tenderness, and warmth over bony lesions, which generally occur in the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral regions; long bones of the legs; and, in children, the skull.
❑ Genital involvement produces painful swelling of the testes, the epididymis, or the prostate; deep perineal pain; pyuria; and hematuria.
❑ CNS involvement causes meningitis or cerebral abscesses, resulting in a decreased level of consciousness (LOC), lethargy, and change in mood or affect.
Other dissemination may result in Addison’s disease (adrenal insufficiency), pericarditis, and arthritis.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Symptomatic infection (50% of cases) usually presents as a flu-like illness with fever, chills, productive cough, myalgia, arthralgia and pleuritic chest pain. Some patients fail to recover and develop chronic pulmonary infection or widespread disseminated infection (affecting the skin, bones, and genitourinary tract). Occasionally affects the meninges. (Source: excerpt from Blastomycosis: DBMD)
When considering symptoms of Blastomycosis, it is also important to consider Blastomycosis as a possible cause of other medical conditions. The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Blastomycosis may cause:
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The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Blastomycosis. This signs and symptoms information for Blastomycosis has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Blastomycosis signs or Blastomycosis symptoms. Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Blastomycosis may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they are indeed Blastomycosis symptoms.
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