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Pulmonary mucormycosis in a diabetic renal transplant patient
D Bhowmik1, A K Dinda, G C Khilnani
1Department of Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences
|November 20, 2002
Abstract:
A 50-year-old male, diabetic, post transplant patient had recurrent pneumonia. The first episode responded well to antibiotics, while on the second occasion he had a necrotising pneumonia, which developed into a thick-walled cavity. Despite antibiotics, his condition rapidly deteriorated precluding bronchoscopy or percutaneous biopsy. Post-mortem lung biopsy revealed typical hyphae of mucormycosis.