A massive intraventricular thrombosis by disseminated mucormycosis in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome during deferoxamine therapy

Haematologica. 2003 Sep;88(9):EIM11.

Authors

Naoshi Kubota¹, Keisuke Miyazawa, Nahoko Shoji, Masahiko Sumi, Akihiro Nakajima, Yukihiko Kimura, Hisashi Oshiro, Yoshiro Ebihara, Kazuma Ohyashiki

Affiliation

¹ First Department of Internal Medicine, Second Department of Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Japan.

PMID: 12969824

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / complications*
Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / microbiology
Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / pathology
Cerebral Ventricles / microbiology*
Cerebral Ventricles / pathology
Deferoxamine / adverse effects*
Deferoxamine / therapeutic use*
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Male
Mucorales / isolation & purification
Mucormycosis / complications*
Mucormycosis / etiology*
Myelodysplastic Syndromes / drug therapy*
Opportunistic Infections / complications
Thrombosis / etiology*
Thrombosis / pathology

Substances

Deferoxamine