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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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Autores principales: Sanku, Koushik, Youssef, Dima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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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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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.
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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
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title_short Coexistence of Mucormycosis and Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205389/
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