Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis

Fusarium spp. is an opportunistic mold that causes disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients. It is important to make a definite diagnosis because of high mortality rates. We present the case of a 27-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a prolonged febrile n...

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Autores principales: Uludokumacı, Seven, Balkan, İlker İnanç, Mete, Bilgül, Özaras, Reşat, Saltoğlu, Neşe, Soysal, Teoman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24385814
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0030
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author Uludokumacı, Seven
Balkan, İlker İnanç
Mete, Bilgül
Özaras, Reşat
Saltoğlu, Neşe
Soysal, Teoman
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Balkan, İlker İnanç
Mete, Bilgül
Özaras, Reşat
Saltoğlu, Neşe
Soysal, Teoman
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description Fusarium spp. is an opportunistic mold that causes disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients. It is important to make a definite diagnosis because of high mortality rates. We present the case of a 27-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a prolonged febrile neutropenic period. She developed ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions and simultaneously had Pseudomonas bacteremia and disseminated fusariosis. Histopathological and microbiological features of skin lesions had a critical role in differential diagnosis. Ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions due to disseminated fusariosis might be easily misdiagnosed as lesions associated with Pseudomonas unless tissue cultures and histopathological examinations are performed. Conflict of interest:None declared.
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spelling pubmed-38785342014-01-02 Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis Uludokumacı, Seven Balkan, İlker İnanç Mete, Bilgül Özaras, Reşat Saltoğlu, Neşe Soysal, Teoman Turk J Haematol Case Report Fusarium spp. is an opportunistic mold that causes disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients. It is important to make a definite diagnosis because of high mortality rates. We present the case of a 27-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a prolonged febrile neutropenic period. She developed ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions and simultaneously had Pseudomonas bacteremia and disseminated fusariosis. Histopathological and microbiological features of skin lesions had a critical role in differential diagnosis. Ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions due to disseminated fusariosis might be easily misdiagnosed as lesions associated with Pseudomonas unless tissue cultures and histopathological examinations are performed. Conflict of interest:None declared. Galenos Publishing 2013-09 2013-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3878534/ /pubmed/24385814 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0030 Text en © Turkish Journal of Hematology, Published by Galenos Publishing. 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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Uludokumacı, Seven
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Mete, Bilgül
Özaras, Reşat
Saltoğlu, Neşe
Soysal, Teoman
Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title_full Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title_fullStr Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title_full_unstemmed Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title_short Ecthyma Gangrenosum-like Lesions in a Febrile Neutropenic Patient with Simultaneous Pseudomonas Sepsis and Disseminated Fusariosis
title_sort ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions in a febrile neutropenic patient with simultaneous pseudomonas sepsis and disseminated fusariosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24385814
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/Tjh.2012.0030
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