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Case Reports
. 2021 Aug;23(4):e13652.
doi: 10.1111/tid.13652. Epub 2021 Jun 13.

Mucormycosis associated with COVID-19 in two kidney transplant patients

Carolt Arana  1 , Rafael E Cuevas Ramírez  2 , Marc Xipell  2 , Joaquim Casals  2 , Asunción Moreno  3 , Sabina Herrera  3 , Marta Bodro  3 , Frederic Cofan  2 , Fritz Diekmann  2 , Núria Esforzado  2
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Mucormycosis associated with COVID-19 in two kidney transplant patients

Carolt Arana et al. Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) predisposes patients to bacterial and fungal superinfections due to the impairment of the immunological system. Among the associated opportunistic fungal infections, mucormycosis is one of the least frequent but with the highest mortality. We describe two cases of mucormycosis in two kidney transplant recipients, while they were hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, with rhinosinusal and musculoskeletal involvement, respectively.

Keywords: COVID-19; kidney transplant; mucormycosis; transplantation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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FIGURE 1
A, Case 1: occupation of the left maxillary sinus and osteomeatal complex, with trabeculation of the left premaxillary facial adipose tissue. B, Case 1: post‐surgical left maxillary, frontal, ethmoidal and sphenoid rhinosinusitis, with collections underlying the anterior and lateral wall of the left maxillary sinus and intraorbital. C–E, Case 2: lower right limb with dorsal hematoma and subsequent compartment syndrome with tissue necrosis, with posterior superinfection by Lichtheimia ramose, which required various debridement surgeries and prolonged antifungal treatment
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