A Rare Case of Empyema Complicated With Bronchopleural Fistula Secondary to Mucormycosis in a Young Immunocompromised Diabetic Patient With COVID-19

Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection caused by the zygomycetes Mucor and Rhizopus. Most documented conditions and risk factors that predispose to mucormycosis are uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM), with or without ketoacidosis, hematological malignancies (HM), transplantation, immunos...

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Autores principales: Risal, Ruby, Jahir, Tahmina, Islam, Ratul, Noel, Pharlin, Subedi, Kamal R, Khan, Ahmad, Kumari, Aneeta, Schmidt, Marie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pulmonology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9356580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949757
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26635

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