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Cardiac mucormycosis complicating diabetes mellitus
T M Roy1, K C Anderson, J R Farrow
1Division of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292.
The Journal of Diabetic Complications
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
Fewer than 25 cases of myocardial involvement with the Mucoraceae have been reported. We present a diabetic patient with recurrent ketoacidosis and staphylococcal septicemia whose demise was accelerated by unsuspected left atrial mural endocardial mucormycosis.