Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment

Cutaneous alternariosis is an opportunistic infection that has been described mainly in patients treated with corticosteroids. We report a case of dermal alternariosis occurring in a woman treated with corticosteroids after a neurosurgery that was unresponsive to itraconazole. Treatment with intrave...

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Autores principales: Gomes, Joana, Vilarinho, Catarina, Duarte, Maria da Luz, Brito, Celeste
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/385803
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author Gomes, Joana
Vilarinho, Catarina
Duarte, Maria da Luz
Brito, Celeste
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description Cutaneous alternariosis is an opportunistic infection that has been described mainly in patients treated with corticosteroids. We report a case of dermal alternariosis occurring in a woman treated with corticosteroids after a neurosurgery that was unresponsive to itraconazole. Treatment with intravenous voriconazole was initiated, followed by oral protocol, with marked improvement of the lesions.
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spelling pubmed-35042452012-11-29 Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment Gomes, Joana Vilarinho, Catarina Duarte, Maria da Luz Brito, Celeste Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report Cutaneous alternariosis is an opportunistic infection that has been described mainly in patients treated with corticosteroids. We report a case of dermal alternariosis occurring in a woman treated with corticosteroids after a neurosurgery that was unresponsive to itraconazole. Treatment with intravenous voriconazole was initiated, followed by oral protocol, with marked improvement of the lesions. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3504245/ /pubmed/23198173 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/385803 Text en Copyright © 2011 Joana Gomes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title_full Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title_fullStr Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title_short Cutaneous Phaeohyphomycosis Caused by Alternaria alternata Unresponsive to Itraconazole Treatment
title_sort cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis caused by alternaria alternata unresponsive to itraconazole treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23198173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/385803
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