A Young, Immunocompetent Woman with Small Bowel and Hepatic Mucormycosis Successfully Treated with Aggressive Surgical Debridements and Antifungal Therapy

Daniel Vikum; Ingvild Nordøy; Cecilie Torp Andersen; Børre Fevang; Pål Dag Line; Finn Kristian Kolrud; Pål Aukrust; Trond Buanes

doi:10.1155/2017/4173246

A Young, Immunocompetent Woman with Small Bowel and Hepatic Mucormycosis Successfully Treated with Aggressive Surgical Debridements and Antifungal Therapy

Case Rep Infect Dis. 2017:2017:4173246. doi: 10.1155/2017/4173246. Epub 2017 Dec 24.

Authors

Daniel Vikum¹, Ingvild Nordøy^{2

3}, Cecilie Torp Andersen⁴, Børre Fevang^{2

3}, Pål Dag Line^{1

5

6}, Finn Kristian Kolrud⁷, Pål Aukrust^{1

2

3}, Trond Buanes^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
³ Research Institute of Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Section for Transplantation Surgery, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁶ Department of Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

A 24-year-old woman with coeliac disease and transient neutropenia developed mucormycosis with extensive involvement of the liver and small intestine. She was successfully treated with aggressive surgical debridements and long-term antifungal therapy with liposomal amphotericin B and posaconazole.

Publication types

Case Reports