title: [Disseminated mucormycosis in AIDS].
abstract: Mucormycosis is a rare often fatal opportunistic condition. It mainly occurs in immunocompromised subjects but rarely in AIDS patients. An eighteen-year-old HIV+ man from Zaire died rapidly from disseminated mucormycosis with pulmonary, cardiac, renal, hepatic, splenic and gastric involvement. Fungi were observed in all these organs with a particular vascular trophism. Rhizopus orizae was identified on cultures. Rapid microscopic diagnosis, in the localized stage, could improve the poor prognosis of this infection.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lagorce Pagès
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fabre
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bruneel
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hénin
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D000293:Adolescent; D001344:Autopsy; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000473:pathology*