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Successful Treatment of Bilateral Renal Mucormycosis With Isavuconazole: A Case Report

Isolated renal mucormycosis (IRM) is a rare disease with high mortality, more commonly seen in immunocompromised patients. Management has traditionally included antifungal drugs with or without nephrectomy. We present the case of a 34-year-old female with a past medical history of type 1 diabetes me...

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Autores principales: Najjar, Yaseen, Botros, Shirley, Acker, Emily, Ramani, Ananthakrishnan, Beers, Kelly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10439839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37605691
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42219
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Sumario:Isolated renal mucormycosis (IRM) is a rare disease with high mortality, more commonly seen in immunocompromised patients. Management has traditionally included antifungal drugs with or without nephrectomy. We present the case of a 34-year-old female with a past medical history of type 1 diabetes mellitus and intravenous heroin use who presented with fever, flank pain, hematuria, and vomiting. She was found to have an oliguric acute kidney injury (AKI) with a serum creatinine (Cr) of 2.5 mg/dL. CT showed bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis and ureteral cultures grew Rhizopus species. Amphotericin B was started before being switched to isavuconazole due to worsening AKI, and hemodialysis was only required transiently. Rather than the traditional approach to treatment, a conservative approach that preserved kidney function was utilized, and the patient was successfully treated with six months of isavuconazole.