A Case of Isolated Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Immunocompetent Host

نویسندگان

  • Jung Su Lee
  • Ho Cheol Kim
  • Sang Woo Park
  • Hoon Sub So
  • Chang Yun Woo
  • Jong Han Choi
  • Sang Hyung Kim
  • Se Jin Kim
  • Yeon-Mok Oh
چکیده

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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دوره 74  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013