A deadly thorn prick
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Infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among haemodialysis patients. Some of the risk factors specific to this population include repeated access to the blood stream through venous cannulation for dialysis as well as a higher prevalent usage of prosthetic materials like haemodialysis catheters and arteriovenous grafts. In addition, defects in immunity and phagocytosis also contribute to the increased risk of infection. Both iron overload [1] and its treatment, desferrioxamine (DFO), predispose haemodialysis patients to infections [2, 3]. We describe here a fatal case of Cunninghamella bertholletiae infection in a haemodialysis patient with transfusional iron overload while receiving DFO.
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