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Twenty patients with gastrointestinal mucormycosis are reviewed. This often fatal opportunistic fungal infection was diagnosed histologically, and was categorized as colonization (five patients), infiltration (seven patients), or vascular invasion (eight patients). There were no fatalities from colonization. In 10 patients, mucormycosis complicated peptic ulcer disease. Seven of these patients had infiltrative or invasive disease. The presentation and operative findings mimicked malignancy in five of these seven patients, and six had successful surgical intervention. The other patient was cured by medical therapy alone. Ten patients had infection associated with other gastrointestinal diseases: post-traumatic peritonitis (four patients), transmural amoebiasis (two patients), tuberculosis (one patient), gastroenteritis (one patient), gastric carcinoma (one patient) and diabetes (one patient). Eight patients had significant infection and only one survived. In this series, mucormycosis had a less aggressive course when complicating peptic ulcer than when it occurred in association with other gut diseases.
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PMID:Gastrointestinal mucormycosis. 191 15

Nine fatal cases of systemic mucormycosis observed in association with renal failure are described. Four patients were hospitalized for chronic renal failure as a consequence of chronic glomerulonephritis, myeloma kidney, chronic pyelonephritis, and polycystic kidney disease, respectively; and five patients presented with acute renal failure. The underlying causes in three of these five patients were gentamycin nephrotoxicity, acute gastroenteritis, and allograft rejection, respectively, and in the remaining two, acute renal failure was the result of extensive renal vascular and parenchymal invasion by mucor hyphae. Tissue invasion with mucormycosis was documented during life in two patients and at autopsy in seven patients. The infection was disseminated in five patients, and isolated pulmonary and rhinocerebral involvement occurred in two patients each. Our observations have shown that patients with renal failure are prone to develop mucormycosis, which carries a grave prognosis if therapy is not instituted in time.
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PMID:Mucormycosis in patients with renal failure. 248 82

Mucormycosis is the name for invasive fungal infection caused by mucorales. The disease is uncommon and produces serious and rapidly fatal infection in patients with serious pre-existing illness. The classical presentation of rhinocerebral mucormycosis is involvement of nasal mucosa with invasion of paranasal sinuses and orbit. We report a case of mucormycosis in an otherwise healthy female who had developed acute renal failure following gastroenteritis.
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PMID:Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a patient of acute renal failure. 1129 81

Mucormycosis is characterized by severe infection with rapid progression and a high mortality rate. In immunocompromised hosts, the most common type is the rhinocerebral form of mucormycosis. Invasive mucormycosis affecting only the tongue is extremely rare. We report one such case that occurred in an immunocompromised 4-month-old girl with Down syndrome who had been hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis. The infant had metabolic acidosis secondary to diarrhea. It was suspected that the infection had been contracted through the use of a wooden tongue depressor during oral examination. We present this case report in the hope that it will discourage clinicians from using wooden tongue depressors in vulnerable infants. We also wish to emphasize that mucormycosis should be considered in all patients--regardless of age--who present with localized bluish-black discolored mucosa of the oral mucosa and/or tongue.
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PMID:Isolated lingual mucormycosis in an infant with Down syndrome. 1835 44