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Mucormycosis in Different Clinical Settings: A Case Series

Mucormycosis is a fungal infection that can be very destructive and often fatal. People most prone to this infection include those who are immunocompromised. Early diagnosis and treatment, along with addressing the risk factors, play a pivotal role in the management. Here, the authors are reporting...

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Autores principales: Esteak, Tareq, Shah, Rabeea, Tosaddeque, Maha, Behram, Shameem, Nasir, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637825
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24419
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author Esteak, Tareq
Shah, Rabeea
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Behram, Shameem
Nasir, Muhammad
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description Mucormycosis is a fungal infection that can be very destructive and often fatal. People most prone to this infection include those who are immunocompromised. Early diagnosis and treatment, along with addressing the risk factors, play a pivotal role in the management. Here, the authors are reporting three cases of immunocompromised patients. Among them, two had uncontrolled diabetes, and the third had a history of renal transplant and COVID-19 infection. All three cases are distinct anatomically; one is pulmonary, one is rhino-orbital-cerebral, and the last one is rhino-maxillary.
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spelling pubmed-91265982022-05-29 Mucormycosis in Different Clinical Settings: A Case Series Esteak, Tareq Shah, Rabeea Tosaddeque, Maha Behram, Shameem Nasir, Muhammad Cureus Neurology Mucormycosis is a fungal infection that can be very destructive and often fatal. People most prone to this infection include those who are immunocompromised. Early diagnosis and treatment, along with addressing the risk factors, play a pivotal role in the management. Here, the authors are reporting three cases of immunocompromised patients. Among them, two had uncontrolled diabetes, and the third had a history of renal transplant and COVID-19 infection. All three cases are distinct anatomically; one is pulmonary, one is rhino-orbital-cerebral, and the last one is rhino-maxillary. Cureus 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9126598/ /pubmed/35637825 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24419 Text en Copyright © 2022, Esteak 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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title Mucormycosis in Different Clinical Settings: A Case Series
title_full Mucormycosis in Different Clinical Settings: A Case Series
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title_short Mucormycosis in Different Clinical Settings: A Case Series
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9126598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637825
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24419
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