ArticleBMJ case reports2013
Successful treatment of disseminated mucormycosis in a neutropenic patient with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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- Clinical presentations, diagnosis, management, and outcomes of renal mucormycosis: An overview of case reports.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Isolated renal mucormycosis masquerading as emphysematous pyelonephritis.BMJ case reports · 2023Article
- Case report: A rare case of pulmonary mucormycosis caused byFrontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Disseminated Mucormycosis in Immunocompromised Children: Are New Antifungal Agents Making a Difference? A Multicenter Retrospective Study.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- First Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Caused by Lichtheimia ornata, with a Review of Lichtheimia Infections.Mycopathologia · 2020Review
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- Bacteriome and mycobiome associations in oral tongue cancer.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- Renal mucormycosis in immunocompromised patient, treated with Robotic Nephrectomy: Case report and review of articles.Urology case reports · 2017Article
- Novel therapeutic use of Versajet for intestinal mucormycosis.BMJ case reports · 2014Article
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Abstract
Mucormycosis is a rare angioinvasive fungal infection, more commonly seen in immunosuppressed patients, with reported mortality rates of 95% in disseminated disease. We present a case report of a patient with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who developed disseminated infection with mucormycosis (involving the pancreas, left occipital lobe, right lower lobe of lung, appendix and right kidney) after having completed induction and consolidation chemotherapy. Growth of Lichtheimia corymbifera was initially isolated following a right pleural tap with fungal elements identified repeatedly on subsequent pathology specimens. Following radical surgical debridement and concurrent treatment with combination antifungal therapy, the patient survived. This case demonstrates that aggressive multisite surgical de-bulking of disseminated fungal foci, in conjunction with combination antifungal therapy and reversal of immunosuppression, can result in survival despite the grave prognosis associated with disseminated mucormycosis.
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