ABSTRACT
Se estudiaron cinco casos de micromicosis en los hospitales San Juan de Dios y Sor María Ludovica de La Plata entre los años 1980 y 1997. La mucormicosis se presenta como una enfermedad oportunista, grave, frecuentemente mortal, que afecta a individuos con una afección primaria que favorece la invasión del microorganismo (diabetes, inmunodepresión, linfomas, leucemia, quemados, etc.). En este trabajo presentamos tres casos de mucormicosis cutáneas en niños de 3, 10 y 11 años de edad, secundarias a politrautamismos y fracturas expuestas sufridas en accidentes automovilísticos; un caso de mucormicosis pulmonar en un adulto de 28 años de edad que había recibido corticoterapia prolongada y una mucormicosis rinocerebral en un paciente de 38 años de edad, cuya enfermedad primaria era una leucemia linfoide aguda(AU)
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Child , Adult , Amphotericin B/therapeutic use , Immunosuppression Therapy , Mucormycosis/diagnosis , Mucormycosis/drug therapy , Mucormycosis/pathology , Mucorales/pathogenicity , Rhizopus/pathogenicity , Hyperglycemia , ArgentinaABSTRACT
Se estudiaron cinco casos de micromicosis en los hospitales San Juan de Dios y Sor María Ludovica de La Plata entre los años 1980 y 1997. La mucormicosis se presenta como una enfermedad oportunista, grave, frecuentemente mortal, que afecta a individuos con una afección primaria que favorece la invasión del microorganismo (diabetes, inmunodepresión, linfomas, leucemia, quemados, etc.). En este trabajo presentamos tres casos de mucormicosis cutáneas en niños de 3, 10 y 11 años de edad, secundarias a politrautamismos y fracturas expuestas sufridas en accidentes automovilísticos; un caso de mucormicosis pulmonar en un adulto de 28 años de edad que había recibido corticoterapia prolongada y una mucormicosis rinocerebral en un paciente de 38 años de edad, cuya enfermedad primaria era una leucemia linfoide aguda
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Child , Adult , Amphotericin B/therapeutic use , Hyperglycemia , Immunosuppression Therapy , Mucorales/pathogenicity , Mucormycosis/diagnosis , Mucormycosis/drug therapy , Mucormycosis/pathology , Rhizopus/pathogenicity , ArgentinaABSTRACT
Hospital San Juan de Dios and Sor María Ludovica in La Plata, between 1980 and 1997. Mucormicosis is a frequently fatal, opportunistic fungal infection, that affects immunocompromised patients. The risk factors include diabetes mellitus, leukemia, lymphoma, burns, etc. We present three cases of cutaneous mucormicosis in children 3, 10 and 11 years old, who had been sent to the hospital due to compound fractures in a car crash; one case of pulmonary mucormicosis in an adult 28 years old with prolonged corticotherapy and rhinocerebral mucormicosis in a patient 38 years old with a diagnosis of acute lymphoid leukemia.
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Mucormycosis/physiopathology , Accidents, Traffic , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Lung Diseases, Fungal/physiopathology , MaleABSTRACT
To assess the relationship between carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) and alcoholic liver disease, we measured the ratio of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin to total transferrin (rCDT) in 32 male alcoholics with liver disease (Child-Pugh class A, 8; B, 11; C, 13) and 14 male alcoholics without clinically evident liver disease. Twenty of 32 with liver disease and six of 14 without clinically apparent liver disease had recent abstinence. The 32 patients with liver disease were assessed, in addition to the Child-Pugh class, using a linear prognostic score, the Combined Clinical and Laboratory Index (CCLI). Transferrin and CDT were measured by isocratic anion exchange chromatography and a radio-immunoassay. When the total group (n = 46) was divided into those with recent abstinence (n = 26) and those without (n = 20), the rCDT was lower in the abstainers than non-abstainers (0.7 +/- 0.6 vs 2.9 +/- 2.4, P < 0.005). Similarly, abstainers with liver disease (n = 20) had a significantly lower rCDT than non-abstainers (n = 12) with liver disease (0.7 +/- 0.7 vs 3.5 +/- 2.8, P < 0.005). The rCDT in the 20 abstaining patients with liver disease did not differ significantly between Child-Pugh classes. Furthermore, there was no correlation between the CCLI and rCDT (r = 0.05). We conclude that the relationship between rCDT and alcohol abuse is not appreciably altered by the presence of clinically severe liver disease in male alcoholics.
