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ArticleBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud2024

Mucormycosis: A sweet enemy, case series

Santiago Manrique-Castaño, Luis Armando Velásquez-Trujillo, Mariana Ángel Correa, José Humberto Bravo, Lorena Matta Cortes

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Article in Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Santiago Manrique-CastañoDepartamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-4890-3458
Luis Armando Velásquez-TrujilloDepartamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-6747-9330
Mariana Ángel CorreaPrograma de Medicina y Cirugía, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-0411-7543
José Humberto BravoDepartamento de Patología, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0003-1409-4493
Lorena Matta CortesDepartamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-5215-3215

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by fungi of the Mucorales order that occurs in immunocompromised individuals or with loss of skin or mucosa barrier integrity. This report presents four cases of rhinocerebral mucormycosis attended at a third-level hospital in Cali (Colombia) during a period of three years. All patients had different case histories and times of evolution. All four had a previous or de novo diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus, with glycated hemoglobin higher than 10% on admission. We ruled out other possible pathologies that could explain their immunocompromised condition. Mucormycosis diagnosis was made with direct visualization of hyaline coenocytic hyphae on biopsies. The basis of treatment was liposomal amphotericin B and surgical debridement. Two patients presented bacterial coinfection. One asked for voluntary discharge without having completed the treatment, and another one died. The remaining two have attended controls and had an adequate evolution.

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Amphotericin BMucormycosisAgedAntifungal AgentsDebridementDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleHumansImmunocompromised HostMaleMiddle AgedAmphotericin BAntifungal Agentsliposomal amphotericin Bdiabetes mellitusimmunocompromised hostmicrobiologymucormycosismycology

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PMCPMC11326222

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