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ArticleBMJ case reports2019

Surgical-site mucormycosis infection in a solid-organ transplant recipient and a concise review of the literature.

Husham Haque, Scott Nettboy, Sunil Kumar

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Husham HaqueInternal Medicine, Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA hushamhaque@gmail.com.
Scott NettboyInternal Medicine, Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Sunil KumarPulmonary Critical Care, Broward Health Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Broward Health Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical-site mucormycosis infections in solid-organ transplant recipients are rare conditions, with only 15 previously reported cases. We describe a case of a 49-year-old man who received a liver transplant due to alcoholic cirrhosis. On postoperative day 14, necrosis was noticed at the surgical site. After mucormycosis was diagnosed, monotherapy with amphotericin was started along with surgical debridements. Due to continued clinical deterioration, triple antifungal therapy was started with amphotericin, micafungin and posaconazole. Treatment with a granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor was also started. Despite therapy, the patient expired on postoperative day 31. We review the risk factors for mucormycosis infection in solid-organ transplant recipients as well as evidence for current treatment options. We also review the 15 previously reported cases of surgical-site mucormycosis infections in solid-organ transplant recipients, including time to infection, infecting organisms, mortality and treatments.

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Amphotericin BAntifungal AgentsDebridementFatal OutcomeHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsLiver TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedMucormycosisShock, SepticSurgical Wound InfectionTransplant RecipientsTriazolesAmphotericin BAntifungal AgentsImmunosuppressive AgentsposaconazoleTriazolesdrugs: infectious diseasesliver diseasenosocomial infectionstransplantation

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PMID31826901
PMCPMC6936439
OpenAlexW2995326095

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