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Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge
Mucormycosis is a destructive, necrotizing, and potentially fatal fungal disease that usually affects immunocompromised or diabetic patients. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare, aseptic necrotizing, granulomatous vasculitis affecting small-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25124 |
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author | Sanku, Koushik Youssef, Dima |
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description | Mucormycosis is a destructive, necrotizing, and potentially fatal fungal disease that usually affects immunocompromised or diabetic patients. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare, aseptic necrotizing, granulomatous vasculitis affecting small- to medium-sized vessels, resulting in systemic manifestations. Here, we present a case of a 46-year-old gentleman with overlapping features of mucormycosis and GPA, that was successfully treated with isavuconazole monotherapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-92053892022-06-21 Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge Sanku, Koushik Youssef, Dima Cureus Internal Medicine Mucormycosis is a destructive, necrotizing, and potentially fatal fungal disease that usually affects immunocompromised or diabetic patients. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), previously known as Wegener’s granulomatosis is a rare, aseptic necrotizing, granulomatous vasculitis affecting small- to medium-sized vessels, resulting in systemic manifestations. Here, we present a case of a 46-year-old gentleman with overlapping features of mucormycosis and GPA, that was successfully treated with isavuconazole monotherapy. Cureus 2022-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9205389/ /pubmed/35733467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25124 Text en Copyright © 2022, Sanku 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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Sanku, Koushik Youssef, Dima Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title | Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title_full | Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title_fullStr | Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title_full_unstemmed | Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title_short | Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge |
title_sort | coexistence of mucormycosis and granulomatosis with polyangiitis: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25124 |
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