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J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol · Oct 2015
Case ReportsMediastinitis and Bronchial Perforations Due to Mucormycosis.
- Sahajal Dhooria, Ritesh Agarwal, and Arunaloke Chakrabarti.
- Departments of *Pulmonary Medicine †Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
- J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol. 2015 Oct 1; 22 (4): 338-42.
AbstractDiabetes mellitus is the most common predisposing condition for mucormycosis, which is emerging as an important invasive fungal infection worldwide. Isolated mediastinitis is a very rare presentation of mucormycosis. A 57-year-old woman with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus and ketoacidosis presented with septic shock and was subsequently found to have mucor mediastinitis with multiple bronchial perforations. The organism was identified as Rhizopus oryzae with the help of DNA sequencing.
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