Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Neutropenia

Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection associated with high mortality. We present the case of a 61-year-old man with history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with fever and cough, eventually diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis after right lung video-assiste...

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Autores principales: Mir, Izza, Basnet, Sijan, Ellsworth, David, Mohanty, Elan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29670779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2658083
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author Mir, Izza
Basnet, Sijan
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description Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection associated with high mortality. We present the case of a 61-year-old man with history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with fever and cough, eventually diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis after right lung video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B and right lung pneumonectomy; however, he later died from left lung pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-58364492018-04-18 Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Neutropenia Mir, Izza Basnet, Sijan Ellsworth, David Mohanty, Elan Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection associated with high mortality. We present the case of a 61-year-old man with history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with fever and cough, eventually diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis after right lung video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B and right lung pneumonectomy; however, he later died from left lung pneumonia. Hindawi 2018-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5836449/ /pubmed/29670779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2658083 Text en Copyright © 2018 Izza Mir et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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title_fullStr Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Neutropenia
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title_short Pulmonary Mucormycosis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Neutropenia
title_sort pulmonary mucormycosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neutropenia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29670779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2658083
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