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How could hypoglycemia-inducing glycogen storage disease lead to hyperglycemia-induced mucormycosis?
Autops. Case Rep
; 10(1): e2020149, Jan.-Mar. 2020. ilus
Article
in English
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| ID: biblio-1053543
ABSTRACT
Mucormycosis is an increasingly frequent, difficult to diagnose, difficult to treat, often fatal infection, especially in patients with hyperglycemia from uncontrolled diabetes. Type I (von Gierke) glycogen storage disease is due to inherited deficiency of enzymes in glycogen metabolism, which causes hypoglycemia. This report is the case of a patient with von Gierke disease and a missed diagnosis of pulmonary mucormycosis. This report illustrates the importance of having a high index of suspicion for mucormycosis in the appropriate clinical context.