Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases | |
A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host | |
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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.
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