Chronic Renal Failure Presenting for the First Time as Pulmonary Mucormycosis with a Fatal Outcome

Pulmonary mucormycosis is an uncommon, but important, opportunistic fungal pneumonia which is often diagnosed late. Renal failure as the predominant presenting feature is not common in mucormycosis. Moreover, sudden, massive hemoptysis is not a usual complication. In this report we describe fatal p...

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Main Authors: B. Jayakrishnan, Jamal Al Aghbari, Dawar Rizavi, Sinnakirouchenan Srinivasan, Ritu Lakhtakia, Dawood Al Riyami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Nephrology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/589537
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