Cardiac mucormycosis in a child with severe aplastic anemia: a case report.
Mucormycosis is an uncommon, severe, life-threatening fungal infection in the immunocompromised host. Mucormycosis with aplastic anemia is seen rarely. Only a few cases of cardiac mucormycosis with aplastic anemia have been reported in the literature. The authors present a case with severe aplastic anemia that did not respond to classic and immunosuppressive treatment for disease and developing invasive cardiac mucormycosis despite empiric treatment for febrile neutropenia.
Saşmaz
Ilgen
I
Department of Pediatric Hematology, Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
Leblebisatan
Göksel
G
Antmen
Bülent
B
Binokay
Figen
F
Tunali
Nurdan
N
Kilinç
Yurdanur
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000150:complications*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005334:Fever; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009503:Neutropenia; D009894:Opportunistic Infections