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

Haematologica. 2003 Nov;88(11):EIM13.

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.

PMID: 14607766

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Anemia, Refractory / complications*
Anemia, Refractory / therapy
Deferoxamine / adverse effects
Echocardiography
Fatal Outcome
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Heart Diseases / etiology*
Heart Diseases / microbiology
Heart Diseases / pathology
Heart Ventricles
Humans
Iron / pharmacokinetics
Iron Chelating Agents / adverse effects
Iron Overload / complications
Male
Mucorales / isolation & purification
Mucorales / metabolism
Mucormycosis / chemically induced
Mucormycosis / complications*
Opportunistic Infections / complications*
Risk Factors
Siderophores / adverse effects
Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Thrombosis / etiology*
Thrombosis / microbiology
Thrombosis / pathology
Transfusion Reaction

Substances

Iron Chelating Agents
Siderophores
Iron
Deferoxamine