INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS COMPLICATED BY SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY-OCCLUSION FOLLOWING ALLOGENEIC STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION

We describe an unusual case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) complicated by subclavian artery occlusion in a 32-year-old man with s evere aplastic anemia, who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantat ion. He was severely neutropenic after the conditioning for transplant ation, but he had no history of fungal infection, Five days after the transplantation, he developed IPA in the left upper lung, complicated by left subclavian artery occlusion, Extensive chronic graft-versus-ho st disease, which required the administration of potent immunosuppress ants for a long period of time, interfered with the resolution of the IPA.