Pulmonary mucormycosis
Invasive pulmonary mucormycosis: rare presentation with pulmonary eosinophilia
... eosinophilic pulmonary condi- tions, including fungal ...the pulmonary and systemic ...early pulmonary mucormycosis infection who were cured with lobectomies ...
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A Rare Case of Pulmonary Mucormycosis Successfully Treated with Dual Antifungal Agents and Surgery in a Patient with Uncontrolled Diabetes
... Pulmonary mucormycosis is an emergent and life-threatening invasive fungal infection under- diagnosed by clinicians due to unspecific clinical picture and lack of ...of pulmonary mucormycosis ...
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Rare complication of bronchoesophageal fistula due to pulmonary mucormycosis after induction chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia: a case report
... Case presentation: A 51-year-old Korean man was diagnosed as having acute myeloid leukemia and received induction chemotherapy. After prolonged severe neutropenia, he complained of coughing with aspiration. Imaging ...
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Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Detection of Mucorales DNA in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid To Diagnose Pulmonary Mucormycosis
... Detecting specific fungal DNA using targeted PCR in clinical samples can provide early and accurate information about the etiological agent. Several studies have reported that quantitative PCR (qPCR) detection of ...
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Pathophysiological implication of reversed CT halo sign in invasive pulmonary mucormycosis: a rare case report
... invasive pulmonary mucormycosis (IPM) presenting RHS with comparison to those from a lesion of discrete nodule caused by invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), and discusses the pathophysiological ...
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Case Report Pulmonary mucormycosis with embolism: two autopsied cases of acute myeloid leukemia
... Abstract: Mucormycosis is an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality for patients with hematologi- cal ...of mucormycosis usually requires mycological evidence through tissue biopsy or ...
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Proven invasive pulmonary mucormycosis successfully treated with amphotericin B and surgery in patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia: a case report
... invasive pulmonary aspergillosis based on fungal hypha ...and pulmonary radiography was ...upper pulmonary lobe was done and the mycology culture of the lung tissue sample revealed Rhizopus ...
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Dilemma in Management of Diabetic Patients with Pulmonary Mucormycosis
... Pulmonary mucormycosis has a high mortality ...of mucormycosis showed that the hospital mortality was 65 percent for patients with isolated pulmonary mucormycosis and 96 percent for ...
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Case Report Pulmonary mucormycosis after heart-kidney transplantation treated with VATS lobectomy: a case report
... Abstract: Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare pulmonary infection caused by mucorales ...etc. Pulmonary mucormycosis is very dangerous because of the forbidding pro- ...chronic ...
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Mucormycosis: the clinical spectrum
... The study group consisted of 4 male patients and 3 female patients aged between 45- 65 years. The most common clinical presentation was facial pain, headache, nasal obstruction and swelling. Hemoptysis was the main ...
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Disseminated mucormycosis (DM) after pneumonectomy: a case report
... To date, there are no known reliable clinical serological diagnostic methods for the diagnosis of DM. Microbial culture of secretions is time-consuming, with a low sensi- tivity and a high false-positive rate. The ...
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Inhibition of EGFR Signaling Protects from Mucormycosis
... ABSTRACT Mucormycosis is a life-threatening, invasive fungal infection that is caused by various species belonging to the order ...of mucormycosis. During pulmonary mucormycosis, inhaled ...
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Multimodal Surgical and Medical Treatment for Extensive Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis in an Elderly Diabetic Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
... 4]. Mucormycosis can occur in six different forms: rhinocerebral, pulmonary, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, dis- seminated, and uncommon presentation; the most frequent sites of infection are ...
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A Study on Rhino-Orbital Mucormycosis Etiopathogenesis, Risk Factors and Management
... Maureen M. Roden et al in their study on Epidemiology and Outcome of Zygomycosis: A Review of 929 Reported Cases (6) in 2005, analysed 929 mucormycosis patients reported in literature since 1885. A drastic ...
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Mucormycosis in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Case Series and Review of the Literature
... of mucormycosis in patients with underlying inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that presented to our institution over ...gastrointestinal mucormycosis in a patient with Crohn’s ...cutaneous ...
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Mucormycosis in renal transplant recipients: review of 174 reported cases
... about mucormycosis in pa- tients with diabetes mellitus, [7, 8] and hematologic malig- nancies [9, ...of mucormycosis in solid organ transplant recipients [11, 12], this is the first critical review of the ...
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Case series of rhinocerebral mucormycosis: mortality or survival real factors
... Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is an acute and often lethal opportunistic fungal infection typically affecting diabetic (85% of the cases) or immunocompromised patients caused by fungi of the class ...rhinocerebral ...
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Successful outcome of disseminated mucormycosis in a 3-year-old child suffering from acute leukaemia: the role of isavuconazole? A case report
... and mucormycosis, only in adults, as no paediatric pharmacology studies have been reported to ...paediatric mucormycosis, but adverse effects and especially nephrotoxicity, even with the liposomal ...
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RISING INCIDENCE OF MUCORMYCOSIS: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW
... Three formulations have been approved by the FDA. Liposomal Amphotericin B is utilized most often as it delivers the highest concentration of drug with the least risk of nephrotoxicity. Once antifungal therapy has been ...
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Fatal Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a patient with ulcerative colitis receiving azathioprine and corticosteroid
... On August 18, with regard to the deterioration of the patient's clinical condition and given the high level of suspicion for mucormycosis, the patient was prescribed amphotericin B deoxycholate with a dosage ...
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