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[Pulmonary mucormycosis in a leukemia patient. Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties].
- Source :
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Revue des maladies respiratoires [Rev Mal Respir] 1997 Dec; Vol. 14 (6), pp. 502-5. - Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- The observation of pulmonary mucormycosis occurring in a patient presenting with aplasia induced therapeutically during treatment for acute myeloblastic leukaemia, has led to a review of the characteristics of this rare opportunistic fungal infection: it occurs in a particular condition; the clinical manifestations are characterised by the thrombotic character and the rapidly necrosing nature of the histological lesions; the diagnosis is usually very difficult to make and is linked to the rarity of the pathology and the frequently negative mycological specimens apart from tissue biopsies; the value of a medicosurgical therapeutic strategy on which the prognosis of the infection depends.
- Subjects :
- Amphotericin B therapeutic use
Antifungal Agents therapeutic use
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
Bronchoscopy
Hemoptysis diagnosis
Humans
Lung Diseases, Fungal diagnostic imaging
Lung Diseases, Fungal drug therapy
Male
Middle Aged
Mucormycosis diagnostic imaging
Mucormycosis drug therapy
Necrosis
Opportunistic Infections diagnostic imaging
Opportunistic Infections drug therapy
Prognosis
Pulmonary Embolism diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism diagnostic imaging
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Immunocompromised Host
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute drug therapy
Lung Diseases, Fungal diagnosis
Mucormycosis diagnosis
Opportunistic Infections diagnosis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- French
- ISSN :
- 0761-8425
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Revue des maladies respiratoires
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9496612