Pulmonary Mucormycosis: An Interesting Case of Rhizopus Mucormycosis

We report a case of a 57-year-old Vietnamese gentleman who presented with chest pain and shortness of breath for four weeks. The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus and kidney transplant in the past year and was currently on immunosuppressive agents. The patient's condition worsened desp...

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Autores principales: Ukoha, Chijioke D, Nguyen, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262833
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16210
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description We report a case of a 57-year-old Vietnamese gentleman who presented with chest pain and shortness of breath for four weeks. The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus and kidney transplant in the past year and was currently on immunosuppressive agents. The patient's condition worsened despite broad-spectrum antibiotics, so amphotericin was added. Further evaluation with bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy was suggestive of Rhizopus mucormycosis. Despite antifungal therapy, his condition worsened, resulting in multi-organ failure and eventual mortality.
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spelling pubmed-82602002021-07-13 Pulmonary Mucormycosis: An Interesting Case of Rhizopus Mucormycosis Ukoha, Chijioke D Nguyen, Nicholas Cureus Internal Medicine We report a case of a 57-year-old Vietnamese gentleman who presented with chest pain and shortness of breath for four weeks. The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus and kidney transplant in the past year and was currently on immunosuppressive agents. The patient's condition worsened despite broad-spectrum antibiotics, so amphotericin was added. Further evaluation with bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy was suggestive of Rhizopus mucormycosis. Despite antifungal therapy, his condition worsened, resulting in multi-organ failure and eventual mortality. Cureus 2021-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8260200/ /pubmed/34262833 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16210 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ukoha et al. https://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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Pulmonary Mucormycosis: An Interesting Case of Rhizopus Mucormycosis
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title_fullStr Pulmonary Mucormycosis: An Interesting Case of Rhizopus Mucormycosis
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title_short Pulmonary Mucormycosis: An Interesting Case of Rhizopus Mucormycosis
title_sort pulmonary mucormycosis: an interesting case of rhizopus mucormycosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262833
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