A case of isolated pulmonary mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host

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 patie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 2013, 74(6), 341, pp.269-273
Hauptverfasser: Lee, Jung Su, Kim, Ho Cheol, Park, Sang Woo, So, Hoon Sub, Woo, Chang Yun, Choi, Jong Han, Kim, Sang Hyung, Kim, Se Jin, Oh, Yeon-Mok
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1738-3536
2005-6184
DOI:10.4046/trd.2013.74.6.269