Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel

Mucormycosis is rare in clinical practice. Most infections are acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are traumatic implantation and ingestion in immunocompromised host. Mucormycosis is life threatening infection in immunocompromised host with variable moratlity ranging from 15-81% depending...

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Autores principales: Patel, Atul K, Vora, Himanshu J, Patel, Ketan K, Patel, Bhavin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
Materias:
Mycology Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20606975
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62877
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author Patel, Atul K
Vora, Himanshu J
Patel, Ketan K
Patel, Bhavin
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Patel, Ketan K
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description Mucormycosis is rare in clinical practice. Most infections are acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are traumatic implantation and ingestion in immunocompromised host. Mucormycosis is life threatening infection in immunocompromised host with variable moratlity ranging from 15-81% depending upon site of infection. General treatment principles include early diagnosis, correction of underlying immunosuppression and metabolic disturbances, adequate surgical debridement along with amphotericin therapy. We describe surgical site mucormycosis extended to involve large bowel in elderly diabetic patient.
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spelling pubmed-28896592010-07-06 Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel Patel, Atul K Vora, Himanshu J Patel, Ketan K Patel, Bhavin J Glob Infect Dis Mycology Medicine Mucormycosis is rare in clinical practice. Most infections are acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are traumatic implantation and ingestion in immunocompromised host. Mucormycosis is life threatening infection in immunocompromised host with variable moratlity ranging from 15-81% depending upon site of infection. General treatment principles include early diagnosis, correction of underlying immunosuppression and metabolic disturbances, adequate surgical debridement along with amphotericin therapy. We describe surgical site mucormycosis extended to involve large bowel in elderly diabetic patient. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2889659/ /pubmed/20606975 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62877 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Mycology Medicine
Patel, Atul K
Vora, Himanshu J
Patel, Ketan K
Patel, Bhavin
Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title_full Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title_fullStr Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title_full_unstemmed Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title_short Elderly Diabetic Patient with Surgical Site Mucormycosis Extending to Bowel
title_sort elderly diabetic patient with surgical site mucormycosis extending to bowel
topic Mycology Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20606975
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.62877
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