Cutaneous, pulmonary and sinusal aspergillosis in a diabetic patient
Tunisie Medicale [La]. 2010; 88 (7): 519-522
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ABSTRACT
Cutaneous aspergillosis is rarely reported in diabetic patients. The objective of our study is to report a case of lethal disseminated aspergillosis revealed by multiples skin necroses with pulmonary and sinusal involvement in a diabetic patient. A 60-year-old diabetic woman. presented wins one month-rapidly-extensive, 1 to 10 cm skin necroses of the trunk limbs and eyelids. Few days after her admission. she developed dyspnoea. Chest X-ray showed an interstitial and alveolar syndrome with multiple excavated anfractuous-edged-opacities. Facial CT scan showed a right orbital cellulitis with Pansinusitis. The methamine-silver stains on a cutaneous biopsy showed filamentous septate fungal hyphae with branches at right angles. The immunofluorescence with an anti-aspergillus serum was positive. The diagnosis of secondary disseminated aspergillosis to a pulmonary focus with cutaneous, sinusal, and upper airway's dissemination was made. The patient died despite an intravenous amphotericin B therapy. This report emphasizes the importance of evoking and seeking for a mycosis in every skin necrotic and ulcerative lesions occurring in an immunocompromised patient. The prognosis den on the diagnosis and treatment institution delay
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Índice:
IMEMR (Mediterraneo Oriental)
Asunto principal:
Sinusitis
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Resultado Fatal
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Complicaciones de la Diabetes
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Dermatomicosis
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Aspergilosis Pulmonar
Tipo de estudio:
Informe de Casos
Límite:
Femenino
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Tunisie Med.
Año:
2010
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