title: Pulmonary mucormycosis in a diabetic renal transplant patient.
abstract: A 50-year-old male, diabetic, post transplant patient had recurrent pneumonia. The first episode responded well to antibiotics, while on the second occasion he had a necrotising pneumonia, which developed into a thick-walled cavity. Despite antibiotics, his condition rapidly deteriorated precluding bronchoscopy or percutaneous biopsy. Post-mortem lung biopsy revealed typical hyphae of mucormycosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhowmik
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Dinda
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Khilnani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Tiwari
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Dash
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D016469:Fungemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D008172:Lung Diseases, Fungal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed