Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas

Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection occurring in immunocompromised patients. It is a serious life threatening condition. Even though diagnosed early, mucormycosis has a mortality rate reaching 50%. We report the case of mucormycosis in a diabetic patient hospitalized in Intensive Care...

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Autores principales: Lakhdar, Karim, Houari, Naoufal, Elbouazzaoui, Abderrahim, Ameuraoui, Taoufik, Boukatta, Brahim, Sbai, Hicham, Kanjaa, Nabil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28293362
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.25.246.10977
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author Lakhdar, Karim
Houari, Naoufal
Elbouazzaoui, Abderrahim
Ameuraoui, Taoufik
Boukatta, Brahim
Sbai, Hicham
Kanjaa, Nabil
author_facet Lakhdar, Karim
Houari, Naoufal
Elbouazzaoui, Abderrahim
Ameuraoui, Taoufik
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Sbai, Hicham
Kanjaa, Nabil
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description Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection occurring in immunocompromised patients. It is a serious life threatening condition. Even though diagnosed early, mucormycosis has a mortality rate reaching 50%. We report the case of mucormycosis in a diabetic patient hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit for severe angiocholitis. Evolution was lethal.
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spelling pubmed-53372952017-03-14 Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas Lakhdar, Karim Houari, Naoufal Elbouazzaoui, Abderrahim Ameuraoui, Taoufik Boukatta, Brahim Sbai, Hicham Kanjaa, Nabil Pan Afr Med J Case Report Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection occurring in immunocompromised patients. It is a serious life threatening condition. Even though diagnosed early, mucormycosis has a mortality rate reaching 50%. We report the case of mucormycosis in a diabetic patient hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit for severe angiocholitis. Evolution was lethal. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5337295/ /pubmed/28293362 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.25.246.10977 Text en © Karim Lakhdar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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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Lakhdar, Karim
Houari, Naoufal
Elbouazzaoui, Abderrahim
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Boukatta, Brahim
Sbai, Hicham
Kanjaa, Nabil
Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas
title Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas
title_full Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas
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title_short Une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas
title_sort une mucormycose faciale compliquant une angiocholite grave: à propos d’un cas
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28293362
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.25.246.10977
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