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15609654

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-21
pubmed:abstractText
Mucormycosis is an extremely rare case of pulmonary mycosis, its prognosis is very poor, and known as an opportunistic infection among immunocompromised hosts accompanied with other primary chronic disease. We report here a case of bilateral lower lobectomies carried out by two-stage operation for pulmonary mucormycosis combined with diabetes mellitus (type I) and severe resistance to an antimycobiotics under biblicographical considerations. A 36-year-old female was diagnosed as a diabetes mellitus (type I), and has been administrated with an insulin injection in 1989 at the age of 22-year-old. The patient was suffered a dry cough in June and the bilateral abnormal shadows were pointed out by the chest X-ray film in November, 2002. By transbronchial lung biopsy, Mucor fungus was confirmed in grannulomatous lung specimen. Intravenous injection of amphotericin B could not be continued due to the unavoidable side-effects from this agent. As the lung mass shadow was enlarged increasing and strongly suggested an abscess, formation in its focus, and then the left lower lobectomy was performed as the first step of surgical treatment and the right lower lobectomy was done on the postoperative forty-fourth day as the second step. The postoperative prognosis was considerably uneventful. After bilateral lower lobectomies, the patient could try a walk and go upstairs with a moderate dyspnea. A possible surgical resection should be conducted for the pulmonary mucormycosis, when the medicinal therapy showed an uneffectiveness and/or an infectious lesion was shown as restricted lesion.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-5252
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1185-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
[Bilateral lower lobectomies for pulmonary mucormycosis].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Second Surgery, Miyazaki Medical College, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports