Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-27-2018
Publication Title
IDCases
Volume
14
First page number:
1
Last page number:
3
Abstract
Mucormycosis is a relatively rare, life-threatening and opportunistic infection that affects immunocompromised patients. We present the unusual case of pulmonary mucormycosis in a 13-year-old Caucasian female that had recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Our case serves as an example to healthcare providers treating immunosuppressed patients with pneumonia to have a high clinical suspicion for fungal infections, as delay in diagnosis and treatment can result in disseminated disease and higher patient mortality risk.
Keywords
Mucormycosis; Diabetes mellitus; Invasive fungal infections; Complications of diabetes mellitus
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
File Format
File Size
748 Kb
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Repository Citation
Pennell, E.,
Pecson, I.,
Nakamura, C.,
Galvis, A. E.
(2018).
Pulmonary Mucormycosis in an Adolescent Female with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
IDCases, 14
1-3.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00474