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Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection commonly seen in diabetics and immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated mucormycosis in a 47-year-old diabetic male who underwent deceased donor renal allograft transplantation about 5 weeks prior to presentation. Our patient presented...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3808793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000351517 |
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author | Hatahet, Mohamad Hazem Narayanan, Mohanram Cleaves, Constance Zreik, Riyam |
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description | Mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection commonly seen in diabetics and immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated mucormycosis in a 47-year-old diabetic male who underwent deceased donor renal allograft transplantation about 5 weeks prior to presentation. Our patient presented with increasing fatigue, diarrhea and oligoanuria and was found to have significant acute kidney injury. Doppler ultrasound of the allograft revealed segmental decreased renal perfusion in the upper pole of the allograft with moderate hydronephrosis. Nephrostomy tube placement yielded minimal urine output. An allograft biopsy showed diffuse C4d-positive staining and fungal hyphae suggestive of Mucor infection. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed a right upper lobe mass, a small hypodensity in the liver and normal findings in the head. Despite prompt management including discontinuation of immunosuppression, amphotericin B and allograft nephrectomy, the patient had a rapid decompensation, developed respiratory failure requiring intubation, hypotension and supraventricular tachycardia with multiple new areas of hypoattenuation on head CT – all of which ultimately resulted in his death. A review of the literature revealed that mucormycosis is a relatively rare disease with a cumulative 12-month incidence rate of 0.07% in solid organ transplant recipients. Disseminated disease was found in about 23% of cases, with a mortality rate of 96%. |
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spelling | pubmed-38087932013-10-28 Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Hatahet, Mohamad Hazem Narayanan, Mohanram Cleaves, Constance Zreik, Riyam Case Rep Nephrol Urol Published online: May, 2013 Mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection commonly seen in diabetics and immunocompromised patients. We report a case of disseminated mucormycosis in a 47-year-old diabetic male who underwent deceased donor renal allograft transplantation about 5 weeks prior to presentation. Our patient presented with increasing fatigue, diarrhea and oligoanuria and was found to have significant acute kidney injury. Doppler ultrasound of the allograft revealed segmental decreased renal perfusion in the upper pole of the allograft with moderate hydronephrosis. Nephrostomy tube placement yielded minimal urine output. An allograft biopsy showed diffuse C4d-positive staining and fungal hyphae suggestive of Mucor infection. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed a right upper lobe mass, a small hypodensity in the liver and normal findings in the head. Despite prompt management including discontinuation of immunosuppression, amphotericin B and allograft nephrectomy, the patient had a rapid decompensation, developed respiratory failure requiring intubation, hypotension and supraventricular tachycardia with multiple new areas of hypoattenuation on head CT – all of which ultimately resulted in his death. A review of the literature revealed that mucormycosis is a relatively rare disease with a cumulative 12-month incidence rate of 0.07% in solid organ transplant recipients. Disseminated disease was found in about 23% of cases, with a mortality rate of 96%. S. Karger AG 2013-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3808793/ /pubmed/24167513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000351517 Text en Copyright © 2013 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions. |
spellingShingle | Published online: May, 2013 Hatahet, Mohamad Hazem Narayanan, Mohanram Cleaves, Constance Zreik, Riyam Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title | Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full | Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_fullStr | Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_short | Disseminated Mucormycosis in a Patient with Recent Kidney Transplantation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature |
title_sort | disseminated mucormycosis in a patient with recent kidney transplantation: a case report and review of the literature |
topic | Published online: May, 2013 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3808793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000351517 |
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