A Young, Immunocompetent Woman with Small Bowel and Hepatic Mucormycosis Successfully Treated with Aggressive Surgical Debridements and Antifungal Therapy-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Young, Immunocompetent Woman with Small Bowel and Hepatic Mucormycosis Successfully Treated with Aggressive Surgical Debridements and Antifungal Therapy

Published:2017 Issue: Volume:2017 Page:1-4
ISSN:2090-6625
Container-title:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
language:en
Short-container-title:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases

Author:

Vikum Daniel¹^ORCID,Nordøy Ingvild²³,Torp Andersen Cecilie⁴,Fevang Børre²³,Line Pål Dag¹⁵⁶^ORCID,Kolrud Finn Kristian⁷,Aukrust Pål¹²³,Buanes Trond¹⁶

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

2. Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

3. Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

4. Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

5. Section for Transplantation Surgery, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

6. Department of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

7. Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Abstract

A 24-year-old woman with coeliac disease and transient neutropenia developed mucormycosis with extensive involvement of the liver and small intestine. She was successfully treated with aggressive surgical debridements and long-term antifungal therapy with liposomal amphotericin B and posaconazole.

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Subject

General Medicine

Link

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/criid/2017/4173246.pdf

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