Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus

Intestinal mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection reported more commonly in immunocompromised patients, premature infants, diabetics, transplant recipients, prolonged use of corticosteroids, or in conditions associated with an increased availability of serum iron such as acidosis or deferoxamine ad...

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Autores principales: Quraishi, Abdul Haque M., Peshattiwar, Aishwarya, Umare, Girish, Bannerji, Avishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32139994
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_11_19
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author Quraishi, Abdul Haque M.
Peshattiwar, Aishwarya
Umare, Girish
Bannerji, Avishek
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description Intestinal mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection reported more commonly in immunocompromised patients, premature infants, diabetics, transplant recipients, prolonged use of corticosteroids, or in conditions associated with an increased availability of serum iron such as acidosis or deferoxamine administration and carries a high mortality rate. We report the case of a 14-year-old boy with diabetes mellitus, who presented with atypical clinical features. He was diagnosed as intestinal mucormycosis and was treated successfully with surgical and antifungal management.
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spelling pubmed-70206792020-03-06 Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus Quraishi, Abdul Haque M. Peshattiwar, Aishwarya Umare, Girish Bannerji, Avishek J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Intestinal mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection reported more commonly in immunocompromised patients, premature infants, diabetics, transplant recipients, prolonged use of corticosteroids, or in conditions associated with an increased availability of serum iron such as acidosis or deferoxamine administration and carries a high mortality rate. We report the case of a 14-year-old boy with diabetes mellitus, who presented with atypical clinical features. He was diagnosed as intestinal mucormycosis and was treated successfully with surgical and antifungal management. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7020679/ /pubmed/32139994 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_11_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title_full Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title_fullStr Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title_full_unstemmed Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title_short Perforation Peritonitis Secondary to Intestinal Mucormycosis in a Boy with Type I Diabetes Mellitus
title_sort perforation peritonitis secondary to intestinal mucormycosis in a boy with type i diabetes mellitus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7020679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32139994
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_11_19
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