Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement

Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection. Cardiac involvement is a rare, yet fatal, complication that can occur in disseminated disease. A strong index of suspicion is necessary for prompt treatment, especially in high-risk patients. We present a 62-year-old male patient with a history of d...

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Autores principales: Soliman, Mohanad, Harding, Cameron, El Haddad, Hanine, Mansour, Akila, Anstead, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363441
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4760
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author Soliman, Mohanad
Harding, Cameron
El Haddad, Hanine
Mansour, Akila
Anstead, Michael
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description Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection. Cardiac involvement is a rare, yet fatal, complication that can occur in disseminated disease. A strong index of suspicion is necessary for prompt treatment, especially in high-risk patients. We present a 62-year-old male patient with a history of diabetes and acute myeloid leukemia; he had pulmonary mucormycosis that was complicated by cardiac involvement as part of disseminated mucormycosis syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-66631162019-07-30 Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement Soliman, Mohanad Harding, Cameron El Haddad, Hanine Mansour, Akila Anstead, Michael Cureus Cardiology Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection. Cardiac involvement is a rare, yet fatal, complication that can occur in disseminated disease. A strong index of suspicion is necessary for prompt treatment, especially in high-risk patients. We present a 62-year-old male patient with a history of diabetes and acute myeloid leukemia; he had pulmonary mucormycosis that was complicated by cardiac involvement as part of disseminated mucormycosis syndrome. Cureus 2019-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6663116/ /pubmed/31363441 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4760 Text en Copyright © 2019, Soliman et al. 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 author and source are credited.
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Soliman, Mohanad
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Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title_full Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title_fullStr Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title_short Disseminated Mucormycosis with Extensive Cardiac Involvement
title_sort disseminated mucormycosis with extensive cardiac involvement
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6663116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31363441
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4760
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