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A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal disease that holds a fatal opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, and immunocompromised host. Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis is extremely rare. Optimal therapy is a combined medical-surgical approach and a management of the patie...

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Autores principales: Lee, Jung Su, Kim, Ho Cheol, Park, Sang Woo, So, Hoon Sub, Woo, Chang Yun, Choi, Jong Han, Kim, Sang Hyung, Kim, Se Jin, Oh, Yeon-Mok
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3695309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23814599
http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2013.74.6.269
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author Lee, Jung Su
Kim, Ho Cheol
Park, Sang Woo
So, Hoon Sub
Woo, Chang Yun
Choi, Jong Han
Kim, Sang Hyung
Kim, Se Jin
Oh, Yeon-Mok
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Kim, Ho Cheol
Park, Sang Woo
So, Hoon Sub
Woo, Chang Yun
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description Mucormycosis is a rare fungal disease that holds a fatal opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, and immunocompromised host. Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis is extremely rare. Optimal therapy is a combined medical-surgical approach and a management of the patient's underlying disease. Herein, we report a case-study of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis which was being presented as multiple lung nodules in a patient with no underlying risk factors. Considering that the patient had poor pulmonary functions, we treated him with only antifungal agent rather than a combined medical-surgical approach. After treatment with antifungal agent for six months, the nodules of pulmonary mucormycosis were improved with the prominent reductions of size on the computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-36953092013-06-30 A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host Lee, Jung Su Kim, Ho Cheol Park, Sang Woo So, Hoon Sub Woo, Chang Yun Choi, Jong Han Kim, Sang Hyung Kim, Se Jin Oh, Yeon-Mok Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul) Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare fungal disease that holds a fatal opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, and immunocompromised host. Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis is extremely rare. Optimal therapy is a combined medical-surgical approach and a management of the patient's underlying disease. Herein, we report a case-study of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis which was being presented as multiple lung nodules in a patient with no underlying risk factors. Considering that the patient had poor pulmonary functions, we treated him with only antifungal agent rather than a combined medical-surgical approach. After treatment with antifungal agent for six months, the nodules of pulmonary mucormycosis were improved with the prominent reductions of size on the computed tomography. The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2013-06 2013-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3695309/ /pubmed/23814599 http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2013.74.6.269 Text en Copyright©2013. The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ It is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
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Lee, Jung Su
Kim, Ho Cheol
Park, Sang Woo
So, Hoon Sub
Woo, Chang Yun
Choi, Jong Han
Kim, Sang Hyung
Kim, Se Jin
Oh, Yeon-Mok
A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title_full A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title_fullStr A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title_short A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host
title_sort case of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3695309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23814599
http://dx.doi.org/10.4046/trd.2013.74.6.269
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