A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome

Mucormycosis is a rare disease. It is typically seen in immunocompromised patients. Isolated renal mucormycosis is an extremely rare disease. We here report a case of isolated renal mucormycosis who had recently recovered from COVID-19 pneumonia. The patient was a known case of diabetes mellitus and...

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Autores principales: Sethia, Rajiv Kumar, Charag, Aakib Hamid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8948472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35350712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2022.102061
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description Mucormycosis is a rare disease. It is typically seen in immunocompromised patients. Isolated renal mucormycosis is an extremely rare disease. We here report a case of isolated renal mucormycosis who had recently recovered from COVID-19 pneumonia. The patient was a known case of diabetes mellitus and had already developed acute kidney injury when he reported to us. Despite aggressive medical and surgical management, the patient succumbed to the disease.
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spelling pubmed-89484722022-03-25 A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome Sethia, Rajiv Kumar Charag, Aakib Hamid Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection Mucormycosis is a rare disease. It is typically seen in immunocompromised patients. Isolated renal mucormycosis is an extremely rare disease. We here report a case of isolated renal mucormycosis who had recently recovered from COVID-19 pneumonia. The patient was a known case of diabetes mellitus and had already developed acute kidney injury when he reported to us. Despite aggressive medical and surgical management, the patient succumbed to the disease. Elsevier 2022-03-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8948472/ /pubmed/35350712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2022.102061 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://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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title A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome
title_full A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome
title_fullStr A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome
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title_short A case of isolated unilateral renal mucormycosis post COVID-19 pneumonia with fatal outcome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8948472/
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