Mucormycosis of Pouch of Douglas in a Diabetic Woman

Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection which is rare in clinical practice. This infection is usually acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are ingestion and traumatic implantation, especially in immuno-compromised patients. Here, we present a case of mucormycosis in a 44-year-old diabeti...

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Autores principales: Mondal, Palash K, Mondal, Santosh K, Mondal, Tanmoy K, Saha, Puranjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3459434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055648
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.100577
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author Mondal, Palash K
Mondal, Santosh K
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description Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection which is rare in clinical practice. This infection is usually acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are ingestion and traumatic implantation, especially in immuno-compromised patients. Here, we present a case of mucormycosis in a 44-year-old diabetic woman. The patient had collection of fluid in the Pouch of Douglas (POD) and history of bleeding per vagina. Hysterectomy was done which showed a blackish serosal surface of the posterior uterus. Subsequent investigations revealed mycormycosis caused by Rhizopus oryzae (R. arrhizus) affecting the POD. Patient was treated with liposomal amphotericin B and is now keeping well.
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spelling pubmed-34594342012-10-09 Mucormycosis of Pouch of Douglas in a Diabetic Woman Mondal, Palash K Mondal, Santosh K Mondal, Tanmoy K Saha, Puranjay J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection which is rare in clinical practice. This infection is usually acquired by inhalation; other portals of entry are ingestion and traumatic implantation, especially in immuno-compromised patients. Here, we present a case of mucormycosis in a 44-year-old diabetic woman. The patient had collection of fluid in the Pouch of Douglas (POD) and history of bleeding per vagina. Hysterectomy was done which showed a blackish serosal surface of the posterior uterus. Subsequent investigations revealed mycormycosis caused by Rhizopus oryzae (R. arrhizus) affecting the POD. Patient was treated with liposomal amphotericin B and is now keeping well. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3459434/ /pubmed/23055648 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.100577 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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