Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient

Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressing and lethal infection caused by fungi of the order mucorales. The disease occurs mostly in patients with uncontrolled diabetes or other predisposing systemic conditions. We report a case of rhinofacial mucormycosis in a 39-year-old diabetic patient. The diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Mtibaa, Latifa, Halwani, Chiraz, Tbini, Makram, Boufares, Siwar, Souid, Hana, Ben Sassi, Raja, Gharsallah, Hedi, Ben Mhamed, Rania, Akkari, Khemaies, Jemli, Boutheina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32123659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.01.003
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author Mtibaa, Latifa
Halwani, Chiraz
Tbini, Makram
Boufares, Siwar
Souid, Hana
Ben Sassi, Raja
Gharsallah, Hedi
Ben Mhamed, Rania
Akkari, Khemaies
Jemli, Boutheina
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Halwani, Chiraz
Tbini, Makram
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Gharsallah, Hedi
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description Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressing and lethal infection caused by fungi of the order mucorales. The disease occurs mostly in patients with uncontrolled diabetes or other predisposing systemic conditions. We report a case of rhinofacial mucormycosis in a 39-year-old diabetic patient. The diagnosis was established by clinical examination, imaging, and confirmed by mycological examination. Rhizopus arrhizus was isolated. He was successfully treated with amphotericin B, surgical resection, diabetes control and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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spelling pubmed-70366202020-03-02 Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient Mtibaa, Latifa Halwani, Chiraz Tbini, Makram Boufares, Siwar Souid, Hana Ben Sassi, Raja Gharsallah, Hedi Ben Mhamed, Rania Akkari, Khemaies Jemli, Boutheina Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressing and lethal infection caused by fungi of the order mucorales. The disease occurs mostly in patients with uncontrolled diabetes or other predisposing systemic conditions. We report a case of rhinofacial mucormycosis in a 39-year-old diabetic patient. The diagnosis was established by clinical examination, imaging, and confirmed by mycological examination. Rhizopus arrhizus was isolated. He was successfully treated with amphotericin B, surgical resection, diabetes control and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Elsevier 2020-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7036620/ /pubmed/32123659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.01.003 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Halwani, Chiraz
Tbini, Makram
Boufares, Siwar
Souid, Hana
Ben Sassi, Raja
Gharsallah, Hedi
Ben Mhamed, Rania
Akkari, Khemaies
Jemli, Boutheina
Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title_full Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title_fullStr Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title_full_unstemmed Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title_short Successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
title_sort successful treatment of rhino-facial mucormycosis in a diabetic patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32123659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.01.003
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