Mucormicose órbtto-rino-cerebral associada à cetoacidose diabética: registro de dois casos

• Main Authors: Jackson Maurício Lopes Costa, Maria do Rosário da S.R. Costa, Maria de Lourdes Bonfim, Arnaldo Lopes Albarelli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1985
• Subjects: Mucormicose órbito-rino-cerebral; Zigomicose; Cetoacidose diabética; Orbito-rhinocerebral; Mucormycosis; Zygomycosis; Diabetic ketoacidosis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/df26422daa3c4c5b8b0f3b939138227e

Os autores registam dois casos de Mucormicose órbito-rino-cerebral ocorridos no Maranhão em 1980 e início de 1981, em pacientes portadores de cetoacidose diabética, enfatizando a gravidade desta moléstia causada por fungos oportunistas em pacientes que sofrem de distúrbios metabólicos graves. The authors report two cases of Orbito- rhinocerebral phycomycosis observed during 1980 and the beginning of 1981 in Maranhão, Brazil. Both patients had poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, which emphasises the importance of a decrease in host defenses in opportunistic infections caused by this fungus.