Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report

Disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis is extremely rare, and only a few cases have actually been reported in the literature. It is almost universally fatal despite aggressive surgical and medical management. In this article, we present the case of a 48-year-old immunocompromised male with mucormyco...

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Autores principales: Tachamo, Niranjan, Rajagopalan, Priya, Nazir, Salik, Lohani, Saroj, Le, Brian, Patel, Nitin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27987284
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33215
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author Tachamo, Niranjan
Rajagopalan, Priya
Nazir, Salik
Lohani, Saroj
Le, Brian
Patel, Nitin
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Lohani, Saroj
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description Disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis is extremely rare, and only a few cases have actually been reported in the literature. It is almost universally fatal despite aggressive surgical and medical management. In this article, we present the case of a 48-year-old immunocompromised male with mucormycosis endocarditis, who presented with acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia and passed away due to subsequent multi-organ failure. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of disseminated mucormycosis native valve endocarditis presenting as acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia.
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spelling pubmed-51617852017-01-03 Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report Tachamo, Niranjan Rajagopalan, Priya Nazir, Salik Lohani, Saroj Le, Brian Patel, Nitin J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis is extremely rare, and only a few cases have actually been reported in the literature. It is almost universally fatal despite aggressive surgical and medical management. In this article, we present the case of a 48-year-old immunocompromised male with mucormycosis endocarditis, who presented with acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia and passed away due to subsequent multi-organ failure. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of disseminated mucormycosis native valve endocarditis presenting as acute bilateral lower extremity ischemia. Co-Action Publishing 2016-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5161785/ /pubmed/27987284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33215 Text en © 2016 Niranjan Tachamo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Tachamo, Niranjan
Rajagopalan, Priya
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Lohani, Saroj
Le, Brian
Patel, Nitin
Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title_full Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title_fullStr Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title_short Acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: A case report
title_sort acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities as a presenting feature of disseminated mucormycosis endocarditis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27987284
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v6.33215
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