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[Adjunctive treatment with hyperbaric oxygen in a patient with rhino-sinuso-orbital mucormycosis].

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Mucormycosis (phycomycosis) is an acute and often fatal infection, mostly seen in diabetics and immunocompromised patients, and seldom in healthy people. Therapy includes aggressive surgical debridement, amphotericin B and control of underlying predisposing condition (diabetes, immunosuppression or

Clinical Analysis of Diabetic Combined Pulmonary Mucormycosis.

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OBJECTIVE To improve the understanding of diabetic combined pulmonary mucormycosis. RESULTS The clinical data of twelve patients diagnosed as diabetic combined pulmonary mucormycosis were analyzed by the clinical manifestations, imaging features, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of this disease.

Adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen for treatment of rhinocerebral mucormycosis.

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The therapy of rhinocerebral mucormycosis includes aggressive surgical debridement, administration of high-dose amphotericin B, and control of underlying predisposing conditions, especially diabetes and immunosuppression or immunodeficiency. Hyperbaric oxygen suppresses fungal growth in vitro and

Hypoxemia during hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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This report describes a patient with mucormycosis treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO2). Arterial O2 tension (PaO2) during HBO2 was considerably lower (346 mm Hg) than expected (1,500 mm Hg) due to an inadvertent right main-stem intubation, which was not otherwise clinically evident. This

Bronchial mucormycosis with progressive air trapping.

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A previously healthy 70-year-old woman developed fever, cough, and exertional dyspnea. Her symptoms progressed over a 2-month period despite treatment by her primary care physician with 2 courses of oral antibiotics and the addition of prednisone. Hypoxemia and the finding of hyperglycemia with mild

A Novel Technique for the Management of Massive Hemoptysis: The Customized Endobronchial Silicone Blocker.

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Massive hemoptysis (MH) has a high mortality rate. Therapeutic options include bronchoscopy for endobronchial lesions, bronchial artery embolization (BAE), and emergency surgery. Scant options exist for patients who are not candidates for these modalities. Culprit bronchial segment

Severe pneumonia associated with ibrutinib monotherapy for CLL and lymphoma.

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In recent years, there have been major advances in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) particularly since the development of novel therapeutic agents, mostly "biological drugs." One of the obvious advantages of these agents is the decreased rate of infectious complications occurring

Sudden death in a patient with bone marrow transplant by a fungus among us.

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Mucormycosis is rare, presenting as breakthrough infection among haematological and transplant patients on prophylaxis with voriconazole. We report an unusual presentation of this infection, that which is pneumonia progressing to cardiac arrest. A 68-year-old woman with refractory acute myelogenous

Transcriptional profile of the human skin pathogenic fungus Mucor irregularis in response to low oxygen.

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Mucormycosis is one of the most invasive mycosis and has caused global concern in public health. Cutaneous mucormycosis caused by Mucor irregularis (formerly Rhizomucor variabilis) is an emerging disease in China. To survive in the human body, M. irregularis must overcome the hypoxic (low oxygen)

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