Cardiac mucormycosis in a child with severe aplastic anemia: a case report |
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Authors: | Saşmaz Ilgen Leblebisatan Göksel Antmen Bülent Binokay Figen Tunali Nurdan Kilinç Yurdanur |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pediatric Hematology, Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | aplastic anemia cardiac mucormycosis |
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