Pulmonary mucormycosis (zygomycosis) in a lung transplant recipient: recovery after posaconazole therapy

Transplantation. 2005 Aug 27;80(4):544-5. doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000168343.47569.1c.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Absidia / isolation & purification*
  • Antifungal Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / microbiology
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / drug therapy*
  • Lung Diseases, Fungal / etiology
  • Lung Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Middle Aged
  • Mucormycosis / diagnosis
  • Mucormycosis / drug therapy*
  • Mucormycosis / etiology
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Triazoles / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents
  • Triazoles
  • posaconazole