Tumor shape pulmonary mucormycosis associated with sinonasal aspergillosis in a diabetic patient

Publication date: Available online 1 September 2017
Source:Medical Mycology Case Reports
Author(s): Sophie Point, Frédéric Gabriel, Hugues Bégueret, Jacques Jougon, Fanny Lanternier, Frédéric Grenouillet, Manal Abdel Fattah, Emilie Catherinot, Chantal Raherison, Elodie Blanchard
Mucormycosis is a rare and life-threatening fungal infection of the Mucorales order occurring mainly in immunosuppressed patients. The most common forms are rhinocerebral but pulmonary or disseminated forms may occur. We report the case of a 61-year-old patient in whom pulmonary mucormycosis was diagnosed during his first-ever episode of diabetic ketoacidosis. While receiving liposomal amphotericin B, a sinusal aspergillosis due to Aspergillus fumigatus occured. Evolution was slowly favorable under antifungal tritherapy by liposomal amphotericin B, posaconazole and caspofungin.



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