Two decades of experience in Mucormycosis after kidney transplantation

Einollahi, Behzad; Lessan‐Pezeshki, Mahboob; Aslani, Jafar; Nemati, Eghlim; Rahimi, Zohreh; Hosseini, Mohammad Javad; Ghadiani, Mohammad Hassan; Pedram, Ahmadpour; Shahbazian, Heshmatollah; Pour-Reza-Gholi, Fatemeh; Ghanji, Mohammad Reza; Miladipour, A.H; Nouri-Majalan, Nader

doi:10.12659/aot.881994

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“…Hormone therapy is the uppermost risk factor; >90% of patients who present with fungal infection involvement PCP have received long-term hormone therapy (23). If elderly patients, patients with nutritional deficiency or patients with low-lymphocytes lipoproteinaemia receive >16 mg/d equivalent hormone (>2 months) or >20 mg/d (>1-month) hormone therapy, the risk of PCP infection markedly increases (24). Cyclophosphamide treatment involvement in PCP infection may be related to significant inhibition of the lymphocyte count; therefore, patients regularly treated with cyclophosphamide should consider monitoring their CD4 + lymphocyte count.…”

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Fungal infection involvement in primary biliary cirrhosis: A review of 2 cases

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2016

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

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The present study aimed to analyze the imaging, clinical and pathological features of fungal infection involvement in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) by retrospectively analyzing and reviewing the features of two patients with fungal infection involvement in PBC. Both patients were female. One patient had a confirmed diagnosis of PBC. The other patient had confirmed Sjogren syndrome and PBC. The two cases of PBC were infected with fungal infection after treatment with hormonal and immunosuppressive agents. RCR of sputum confirmed Pneumocystis spp. infection in the patient with PBC alone. The mucormycosis infection was confirmed in the other patient after pathological examination of a renal biopsy. The state of the illnesses progressed quickly and both patients ultimately succumbed to their conditions. The patient prognosis of fungal infection involvement PBC is poor. Patients treated with long-term hormone and immunosuppressive agents should be monitored.

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Fungal infection involvement in primary biliary cirrhosis: A review of 2 cases

Wang

Zhang

et al. 2016

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

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“…The mortality rate was 100% in recipients with pulmonary infection and low (30.8%) in the rhino-cerebral form of disease. 22 Data from the Transplant Associated Infection Surveillance Network showed that among 1063 solid-organ transplant recipients, mucormycosis represented 2% of invasive fungal infections. 1 In solid-organ transplant recipients, dissemination to distant organs seems occur more frequently after rejection and its treatment.…”

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Rhinomaxillary Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Recipient: Case Report

Azarpira

Ashraf²,

Kazemi³

et al. 2012

Exp Clin Transplant

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“…1 The presentation is usually in rhino-sino-orbital/cerebral, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, or disseminated form. 2 Renal allograft mucormycosis has been described in isolated case reports, [3][4][5] but its association with renal papillary necrosis has not been reported, even though renal papillary necrosis is known to occur in fungal infections of the native kidney, 6,7 as well as transplanted kidney.…”

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