Mucormycosis. A complication of critical care

Agger, William A.; Maki, Dennis G.

doi:10.1001/archinte.138.6.925

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“…The hallmark of mu cormycosis pneumonia is the development or progression of pulmonary infiltrates despite antibiotic treatment [5,6]. The presently reported patient is remarkable because of the absence of the expected roentgenological findings in chest X-ray, in spite of the widespread infective pro cess proved by autopsy.…”

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Roentgenologically Invisible Mucormycosis Pneumonia

Aderka¹,

Sidi²,

Garfinkel³

et al. 1983

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Roentgenologically Invisible Mucormycosis Pneumonia

Aderka¹,

Sidi²,

Garfinkel³

et al. 1983

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“…The factors predisposing to disseminated disease are not well understood but include cancer chemotherapy, immunosuppressive therapy, corticosteroid therapy, renal failure, and a prolonged postoperative course. 10 If host defenses and the local factors of immunocompromised patients fail to contain the primary infection, dissemination can occur. 11 The precise mechanism of this serious infection in our patient is unclear, but we assume that his immunosuppression with idarubicin, cytosine arabinoside, glucocorticoids, and subsequent neutropenia all contributed.…”

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Mucormycosis Resulting in Gastric Perforation in a Patient with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: Report of a Case

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Mucormycosis is an uncommon opportunistic fungal infection that may develop in immunocompromised patients with conditions such as diabetes mellitus, leukemia, lymphoma, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or after transplantation with immunosupperessive therapy. We report a case of gastric perforation caused by a mucormycosis infection in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The patient was treated successfully with gastrectomy and the aggressive use of intravenous amphotericin B. He is still alive 1 year after his operation.

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“…Also making it unlikely that an environmental point source is to blame are the multiple different species that were found and the broad time period during which the infections occurred after transplantation, making it highly probable that some of these patients acquired infection at home. Finally, nosocomial clusters of zygomycosis, in contrast to aspergillosis, are very uncommon [10,11].…”

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