ABSTRACT
Mucormycosis is an uncommon, frequently fatal, opportunistic fungal infection. Rhino-cerebral and pulmonary involvement are the most common forms and usually occur in immunecompromised patients. Gastrointestinal involvement is extremely rare, the stomach being the most frequently involved site among them. We report a case of gastric mucormycosis in a 37 year old male alcoholic with gastric ulcer. On histological examination, characteristic findings of hyphae with irregular width and right angle branchings were observed in the gastric mucosa and ulcer debris. The diagnosis of gastric mucormycosis was made by the characteristic histological nature. The patient was treated aggressively with antibiotics and antiulcer regimen for 6 weeks, and then no fungus was present on follow up biopsy of gastric mucosa.
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Adult , Humans , Male , Alcoholics , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Biopsy , Diagnosis , Follow-Up Studies , Fungi , Gastric Mucosa , Hyphae , Mucormycosis , Stomach , Stomach Ulcer , UlcerABSTRACT
Acute uric acid nephropathy is a kind of acute renal failure and results from uric acid crystal deposition within the collecting ducts and the distal tubules due to rapid increase of serum uric acid concentration. Hyperuricemia can be, in the relation to the underlying physiology, clas sified into the three categories. i.e., increased urate pro duction, decreased uric acid excretion, or a combination of the two. It is most commonly presented in the lympho proliferative or myeloproliferative disorders after effective cytolytic chemotherapy in the form of tumor lysis syn drome. But we have recently experienced a case of a 73 year-old female patient with acute lymphoblastic leuke mia whose first presentation was acute uric acid nephrop athy, spontaneously developed without chemotherapy and so report it with review of related literatures.