Isolated Renal Mucormycosis after Liver Transplantation:An Unusual Case Report

Mucormycosis is a rare complication of immunosuppression. Most of the reported cases have been rhinocerebral or disseminated. Isolated renal involvement is extremely rare and until now less than 30 patients have been reported in the English literature. Isolated renal mucormycosis with renal artery r...

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Autores principales: Geramizadeh, B, Kazemi, K, Shamsaifar, A R, Bahraini, A, Nikeghbalian, S, Malekhosseini, S A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22997562
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author Geramizadeh, B
Kazemi, K
Shamsaifar, A R
Bahraini, A
Nikeghbalian, S
Malekhosseini, S A
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Kazemi, K
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description Mucormycosis is a rare complication of immunosuppression. Most of the reported cases have been rhinocerebral or disseminated. Isolated renal involvement is extremely rare and until now less than 30 patients have been reported in the English literature. Isolated renal mucormycosis with renal artery rupture in a liver transplant patient has not been reported so far. Herein we report an extremely rare case of isolated renal mucormycosis in a liver transplant patient who was successfully treated with nephrectomy.
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spelling pubmed-34384392012-09-20 Isolated Renal Mucormycosis after Liver Transplantation:An Unusual Case Report Geramizadeh, B Kazemi, K Shamsaifar, A R Bahraini, A Nikeghbalian, S Malekhosseini, S A Iran Red Crescent Med J Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare complication of immunosuppression. Most of the reported cases have been rhinocerebral or disseminated. Isolated renal involvement is extremely rare and until now less than 30 patients have been reported in the English literature. Isolated renal mucormycosis with renal artery rupture in a liver transplant patient has not been reported so far. Herein we report an extremely rare case of isolated renal mucormycosis in a liver transplant patient who was successfully treated with nephrectomy. Kowsar 2012-07 2012-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3438439/ /pubmed/22997562 Text en Copyright © 2012, Kowsar Corp. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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.
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