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Pulmonary Mucormycosis In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia And Neutropenia., Izza Mir, Sijan Basnet, David Ellsworth, Elan Mohanty
Pulmonary Mucormycosis In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia And Neutropenia., Izza Mir, Sijan Basnet, David Ellsworth, Elan Mohanty
Reading Hospital Internal Medicine Residency
Pulmonary mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection associated with high mortality. We present the case of a 61-year-old man with history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with fever and cough, eventually diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis after right lung video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The patient was successfully treated with amphotericin B and right lung pneumonectomy; however, he later died from left lung pneumonia.