Open AccessFirst report of chronic invasive fungal rhinosinusitis in a patient with ovarian cancer caused by Didymella pedeiae and successful treatment with voriconazole: A case report
Author(s) -
Omid Raiesi,
Seyed Jamal Hashemi,
Muhammad Ibrahim Getso,
Pegah Ardi,
Mojtaba Mohammadi Ardehali,
Driss Raissi,
Sina Shamsaei,
Zeinab Borjian Boroujeni
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current medical mycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.369
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2423-3439
pISSN - 2423-3420
DOI - 10.18502/cmm.7.1.6244
Subject(s) - medicine , voriconazole , paranasal sinuses , itraconazole , ethmoid sinus , nasal cavity , amphotericin b , aspergillosis , surgery , ovarian cancer , frontal sinus , cancer , dermatology , antifungal , immunology
Didymella pedeiae is a dematiaceous fungus that belongs to the Coelomycetes class. While species within this class are known to cause human infection, D. pedeiae had previously only been known as phytopathogens and had never been isolated from a human sample.