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Mucormicosis diseminadas en pacientes sin inmunodeficiencias: una enfermedad que también existe

2014; Elsevier BV; Volume: 32; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.riam.2014.01.006

2173-9188

Juan Carlos Pozo Laderas, Antonio Pontes Moreno, Carmen Pozo Salido, Juan Carlos Robles Arista, María José Linares Sicilia,

Ocular Infections and Treatments

Mucormycosis is usually an acute angioinvasive infections, which leads to non-suppurative necrosis and significant tissue damage. It represents 1.6% of all the invasive fungal infections and predominates in immunosuppressed patients with risk factors. Incidence has been significantly increased even in immunocompetent patients. Due to finding a case of disseminated mucormycosis caused by Rhizomucor pusillus in a young immunocompetent patient, a systematic review was carried out of reported cases in PubMed of mucormycosis in immunocompetent adults according to the main anatomic locations, and especially in disseminated cases. A review of the main risk factors and pathogenicity, clinical manifestations, techniques of early diagnosis, current treatment options, and prognosis is presented. Taxonomy and classification of the genus Mucor has also been reviewed.