Open AccessEffective Treatment of Cerebral Mucormycosis Associated with Brain Surgery
Author(s) -
Omar Chamdine,
Aditya H. Gaur,
Alberto Broniscer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000000626
Subject(s) - posaconazole , mucormycosis , brain abscess , rhizopus oryzae , medicine , micafungin , abscess , surgery , zygomycosis , amphotericin b , antifungal , dermatology , biology , food science , fermentation
Isolated cerebral mucormycosis is rare. We describe a patient with a brain tumor and a surgically-related Rhizopus oryzae brain abscess. Her abscess was effectively treated with posaconazole, micafungin and colony-stimulating factor followed by posaconazole alone. To our knowledge, cerebral mucormycosis secondary to brain surgery had not been previously reported.