A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient

A patient with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus developed a severe pulmonary infection secondary to Rhizopus spp. after receiving short courses of corticosteroids for a respiratory tract infection. He recovered after an aggressive surgical intervention and treatment with isavuconazole. Patie...

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Autores principales: Hoang, Kathy, Abdo, Tony, Reinersman, J. Matthew, Lu, Rufei, Higuita, Nelson Iván Agudelo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32547914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.008
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author Hoang, Kathy
Abdo, Tony
Reinersman, J. Matthew
Lu, Rufei
Higuita, Nelson Iván Agudelo
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description A patient with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus developed a severe pulmonary infection secondary to Rhizopus spp. after receiving short courses of corticosteroids for a respiratory tract infection. He recovered after an aggressive surgical intervention and treatment with isavuconazole. Patients on chronic corticosteroid therapy have a higher risk for pulmonary mucormycosis, but there are much fewer reports of mucormycosis occurring in patients after only short courses of steroid therapy.
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spelling pubmed-72869282020-06-15 A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient Hoang, Kathy Abdo, Tony Reinersman, J. Matthew Lu, Rufei Higuita, Nelson Iván Agudelo Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report A patient with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus developed a severe pulmonary infection secondary to Rhizopus spp. after receiving short courses of corticosteroids for a respiratory tract infection. He recovered after an aggressive surgical intervention and treatment with isavuconazole. Patients on chronic corticosteroid therapy have a higher risk for pulmonary mucormycosis, but there are much fewer reports of mucormycosis occurring in patients after only short courses of steroid therapy. Elsevier 2020-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7286928/ /pubmed/32547914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.008 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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Hoang, Kathy
Abdo, Tony
Reinersman, J. Matthew
Lu, Rufei
Higuita, Nelson Iván Agudelo
A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title_full A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title_fullStr A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title_full_unstemmed A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title_short A case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
title_sort case of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis resulting from short courses of corticosteroids in a well-controlled diabetic patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32547914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2020.05.008
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