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Mucorales PCR in blood as an early marker of invasive gastrointestinal mucormycosis might decrease the delay in
Robina Aerts1,2, Greet De Vlieger3,4, Yves Debaveye3,4
1Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Abstract:
We describe the fatal case of a patient with gastric perforation due to ischemia and necrosis of the stomach secondary to generalized vascular thrombosis following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Histopathological examination of the resected stomach, spleen and omentum unexpectedly showed fungal hyphae suggestive of invasive mucormycosis. We retrospectively performed Mucorales PCR (MucorGenius®, PathoNostics, Maastricht, The Netherlands) in blood and tissue samples of this patient. The PCR was positive 16 days before time of death and 9 days before abdominal pain.

