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Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report
Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare vasculitis affecting the upper and lower respiratory tracts and kidneys. The cornerstone of treatment in these patients is immunosuppressive therapy, which may predispose the patient to super-infections such as fungal diseases per se. However, the fungal infection...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581795 |
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author | SHAYANFAR, Nasrin ZAMANIAN, Abbas BEHRANGI, Elham KIANMEHR, Nahid FIROUZI, Faezeh AZIZIAN, Zahra |
author_facet | SHAYANFAR, Nasrin ZAMANIAN, Abbas BEHRANGI, Elham KIANMEHR, Nahid FIROUZI, Faezeh AZIZIAN, Zahra |
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description | Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare vasculitis affecting the upper and lower respiratory tracts and kidneys. The cornerstone of treatment in these patients is immunosuppressive therapy, which may predispose the patient to super-infections such as fungal diseases per se. However, the fungal infection mimics the clinical manifestations of Wegener’s diseases would lead to neglected course of the infection and subsequent morbidity and mortality especially if unusual organs are involved. Here we report a 21-yr-old female patient referred to a hospital, Tehran, Iran in 2013 with a neglected skin mucormycosis and the course of the disease and outcome with Wegener’s granulomatosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-62948602018-12-21 Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report SHAYANFAR, Nasrin ZAMANIAN, Abbas BEHRANGI, Elham KIANMEHR, Nahid FIROUZI, Faezeh AZIZIAN, Zahra Iran J Public Health Case Report Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare vasculitis affecting the upper and lower respiratory tracts and kidneys. The cornerstone of treatment in these patients is immunosuppressive therapy, which may predispose the patient to super-infections such as fungal diseases per se. However, the fungal infection mimics the clinical manifestations of Wegener’s diseases would lead to neglected course of the infection and subsequent morbidity and mortality especially if unusual organs are involved. Here we report a 21-yr-old female patient referred to a hospital, Tehran, Iran in 2013 with a neglected skin mucormycosis and the course of the disease and outcome with Wegener’s granulomatosis. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6294860/ /pubmed/30581795 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report SHAYANFAR, Nasrin ZAMANIAN, Abbas BEHRANGI, Elham KIANMEHR, Nahid FIROUZI, Faezeh AZIZIAN, Zahra Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title | Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title_full | Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title_short | Mucoromycosis and Wegner’s Granulomatosis: A Case Report |
title_sort | mucoromycosis and wegner’s granulomatosis: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581795 |
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