Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm
Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) is an uncommon entity and is usually congenital in origin or secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension. Infections causing PAA are few, tuberculosis and bacterial infections being the common causative organisms. There have been few cases reported previously, in whi...
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| author | Lakshman Ramachandran Sandeep Dewan Vishal Kumar Bhushan Wankhade |
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| description | Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) is an uncommon entity and is usually congenital in origin or secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension. Infections causing PAA are few, tuberculosis and bacterial infections being the common causative organisms. There have been few cases reported previously, in which the organism causing PAA was found to be a rare fungus called mucor. Pulmonary mucormycosis causing PAA is an infrequent and almost fatal complication as most of the diagnosis was made post mortem.
This report brings out a case of pulmonary mucormycosis causing ruptured PAA in a patient with diabetes. This patient was cured by a timely treatment of a combination of surgery and medical therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2614ca3b4d5440b98ee7c248da16cf6b2022-12-21T18:14:55ZengElsevierRespiratory Medicine Case Reports2213-00712015-01-0116C717310.1016/j.rmcr.2015.07.007Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysmLakshman Ramachandran0Sandeep Dewan1Vishal Kumar2Bhushan Wankhade3Jaypee Hospital, Critical Care Medicine, Sec 129, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaFortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, IndiaFortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, IndiaFortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, IndiaPulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) is an uncommon entity and is usually congenital in origin or secondary to pulmonary arterial hypertension. Infections causing PAA are few, tuberculosis and bacterial infections being the common causative organisms. There have been few cases reported previously, in which the organism causing PAA was found to be a rare fungus called mucor. Pulmonary mucormycosis causing PAA is an infrequent and almost fatal complication as most of the diagnosis was made post mortem. This report brings out a case of pulmonary mucormycosis causing ruptured PAA in a patient with diabetes. This patient was cured by a timely treatment of a combination of surgery and medical therapy.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007115300198MucormycosisPulmonary arteryAneurysm |
| spellingShingle | Lakshman Ramachandran Sandeep Dewan Vishal Kumar Bhushan Wankhade Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm Respiratory Medicine Case Reports Mucormycosis Pulmonary artery Aneurysm |
| title | Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| title_full | Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| title_fullStr | Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| title_short | Mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| title_sort | mucormycosis causing pulmonary artery aneurysm |
| topic | Mucormycosis Pulmonary artery Aneurysm |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007115300198 |
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