Behçet's Disease with Bilateral Renal Infarction Due to Mucormycosis

We herein report a case of Behçet's disease with renal infarction due to mucormycosis. A 76-year-old man with entero-Behçet's disease had been treated with glucocorticoid and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors. His entero-Behçet's disease was refractory to these treatments, and il...

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Autores principales: Shimoyama, Kumiko, Niwa, Tomoyuki, Furukawa, Shogo, Morishita, Naomi, Nagakura, Yuka, Yonezawa, Haruka, Hatakeyama, Masakazu, Okubo, Yusuke, Suzuki, Daisuki, Kosugi, Isao, Shiogama, Kazuya, Ogawa, Noriyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34544946
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.7462-21
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Sumario:We herein report a case of Behçet's disease with renal infarction due to mucormycosis. A 76-year-old man with entero-Behçet's disease had been treated with glucocorticoid and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors. His entero-Behçet's disease was refractory to these treatments, and ileocecal resection was performed. After the operation, renal infarction that was unresponsive to anticoagulation therapy developed. He ultimately died of renal failure due to renal infarction. At the autopsy, histopathology of abundant hyphae in the renal vessel wall revealed mucormycosis. Renal mucormycosis is an important cause of renal failure with renal infarction in immunocompromised patients.

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