A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

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Jung Su Lee¹  Ho Cheol Kim¹  Sang Woo Park¹  Hoon Sub So¹  Chang Yun Woo¹  Jong Han Choi¹  Sang Hyung Kim¹  Se Jin Kim²  Yeon-Mok Oh¹ 

[1] Department of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine;Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, The Armed Forced Capital Hospital

关键词: Mucormycosis;    Lung;    Immunocompetence;    Posaconazole;   

DOI  :  10.4046/trd.2013.74.6.269

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC