TY  - JOUR
AU  - Martins, La Salete
AU  - Cipriano, Ana Sofia
AU  - Lopes, Virginia
AU  - Vizcaíno, José Ramón
AU  - Cabrita, António
AU  - Almeida, Manuela
AU  - Pedroso, Sofia
AU  - Dias, Leonidio
AU  - Castro Henriques, António
AU  - Eusébio, Catarina
AU  - Correia, Sofia Oliveira
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/03/07
TI  - Prolonged and Resistant Cutaneous Infection in Newly Transplanted Renal Patient
JO  - OBM Transplantation
SP  - 057
VL  - 03
IS  - 01
AB  - Mucormycosis is an angioinvasive and potentially fatal fungal infection caused by ubiquitous filamentous fungi. Cutaneous mucormycosis is an emerging infection and potentially lethal. Our aim was to review the literature on cutaneous mucormycosis. We present a case of a renal transplant patient with a surgical wound infection 20 days after kidney transplant. This case is an example on how early diagnosis is crucial and, since culture is less sensitive, microscopic evaluation of the characteristic broad hyphae is the most crucial diagnostic tool.
SN  - 2577-5820
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.transplant.1901057
DO  - 10.21926/obm.transplant.1901057
ID  - Martins2019
ER  -