An unusual cause of acute anemia in an immunosuppressed patient

Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an uncommon, invasive, opportunistic fungal infection with a high mortality rate, seen more commonly in immunocompromised patients. This lethal infection has a wide range of presentations, from colonization of peptic ulcers to infiltrative disease and eventually vasc...

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Autores principales: Modaresi Esfeh, Jamak, Jackson, Whitney, Ansari-Gilani, Kianoush, Putka, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25688101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gastro/gov005
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author Modaresi Esfeh, Jamak
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Putka, Brian
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description Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an uncommon, invasive, opportunistic fungal infection with a high mortality rate, seen more commonly in immunocompromised patients. This lethal infection has a wide range of presentations, from colonization of peptic ulcers to infiltrative disease and eventually vascular invasion. Here we present a case of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an immunocompromised patient, which was proved to be secondary to gastric involvement by mucormycosis.
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spelling pubmed-49766742016-08-09 An unusual cause of acute anemia in an immunosuppressed patient Modaresi Esfeh, Jamak Jackson, Whitney Ansari-Gilani, Kianoush Putka, Brian Gastroenterol Rep (Oxf) Case Reports Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an uncommon, invasive, opportunistic fungal infection with a high mortality rate, seen more commonly in immunocompromised patients. This lethal infection has a wide range of presentations, from colonization of peptic ulcers to infiltrative disease and eventually vascular invasion. Here we present a case of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an immunocompromised patient, which was proved to be secondary to gastric involvement by mucormycosis. Oxford University Press 2016-08 2015-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4976674/ /pubmed/25688101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gastro/gov005 Text en © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press and the Digestive Science Publishing Co. Limited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976674/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gastro/gov005
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