Volume : 7, Issue : 3, March - 2018

ISOLATED GASTRIC MUCORMYCOSIS: AN INTERESTING CASE

Alshifa Yagana, Rakesh Shedge, Vikas Kavishwar

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Mucormycosis</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">previously referred to as zygomycosis</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">is a rare but fatal infection caused by fungal species of the order Mucorales</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">, family Mucoraceae</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">It is usually seen in immunocompromised individuals, such as those suffering from diabetes, recipients of organ transplants or patients on chemotherapy</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Depending on the site affected, the disease can be pulmonary, cutaneous, rhinocereal, gastrointestinal or disseminated</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">We present the case of a 40</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-hansi-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">-</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">year old male who was a known chronic alcoholic and was admitted with haematemesis from oesophageal varices for which endoscopic banding was done</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">However, his condition continued to deteriorate</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">He subsequently succumbed and a gastric ulcer due to mucormycosis was found among other observations</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Mangal&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ascii-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-hansi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>