A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host / 결핵및호흡기질환
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
;
: 269-273, 2013.
Article
in English
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| ID: wpr-59649
ABSTRACT
Mucormycosis is a rare fungal disease that holds a fatal opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes mellitus, hematological malignancy, and immunocompromised host. Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis is extremely rare. Optimal therapy is a combined medical-surgical approach and a management of the patient's underlying disease. Herein, we report a case-study of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis which was being presented as multiple lung nodules in a patient with no underlying risk factors. Considering that the patient had poor pulmonary functions, we treated him with only antifungal agent rather than a combined medical-surgical approach. After treatment with antifungal agent for six months, the nodules of pulmonary mucormycosis were improved with the prominent reductions of size on the computed tomography.
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Main subject:
Triazoles
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Risk Factors
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Immunocompromised Host
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Hematologic Neoplasms
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Diabetes Mellitus
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Immunocompetence
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Lung
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Mucormycosis
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
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