Abstract

CARRILLO-RODRIGUEZ, Víctor Manuel et al. Pulmonary mucormycosis. Presentation of 3 cases and literature review. Neumol. cir. torax [online]. 2017, vol.76, n.2, pp.96-101. ISSN 0028-3746.

Mucormycosis is a serious infection caused by fungi of the genus Mucor and Rizhopus (order Mucorales, class: Zygomycetes) that occurs in immunocompromised hosts, so it is an opportunistic fungal infection. The enter way is the aspiration from contaminated soil with spores, contamination of wounds or catheters, or by ingestion. The most important clinical presentations are rhinocerebral and lung diseases; the latter being the most reported in children. Diagnosis is difficult, finding hyphae in bronchoalveolar lavage samples, body fluids or biopsies is necessary. The treatment is based on three fundamental aspects: 1) treatment of the underlying disease, 2) antifungal therapy and 3) debridement of necrotic tissue.

Keywords : Pulmonary mucormicosis; children; micosis.

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