Cardiac mucormycosis complicating diabetes mellitus.
Fewer than 25 cases of myocardial involvement with the Mucoraceae have been reported. We present a diabetic patient with recurrent ketoacidosis and staphylococcal septicemia whose demise was accelerated by unsuspected left atrial mural endocardial mucormycosis.
Roy
T M
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Division of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292.
Anderson
K C
KC
Farrow
J R
JR
D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000473:pathology; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology