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Editor, Senior Moderator
Transpl Infect Dis
. 2021 May 26;e13652.
doi: 10.1111/tid.13652. Online ahead of print.
Mucormycosis associated with covid19 in two kidney transplant patients
Carolt Arana[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Rafael E Cuevas Ramírez[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Marc Xipell[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Joaquim Casals[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Asunción Moreno[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Sabina Herrera[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Marta Bodro[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Frederic Cofan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fritz Diekmann[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Núria Esforzado[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) predisposes patients to bacterial and fungal superinfections due to the impairment of the immunological system. Among the associated opportunistic fungal infections, mucormycosis is one of the least frequent but with the highest mortality. We describe 2 cases of mucormycosis in two kidney transplant recipients while they were hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, with rhinosinusal and musculoskeletal involvement, respectively.
Keywords: COVID-19; Mucormycosis; kidney transplant; transplantation.
. 2021 May 26;e13652.
doi: 10.1111/tid.13652. Online ahead of print.
Mucormycosis associated with covid19 in two kidney transplant patients
Carolt Arana[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Rafael E Cuevas Ramírez[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Marc Xipell[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Joaquim Casals[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Asunción Moreno[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Sabina Herrera[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Marta Bodro[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Frederic Cofan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fritz Diekmann[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Núria Esforzado[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34038014
- DOI: 10.1111/tid.13652
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) predisposes patients to bacterial and fungal superinfections due to the impairment of the immunological system. Among the associated opportunistic fungal infections, mucormycosis is one of the least frequent but with the highest mortality. We describe 2 cases of mucormycosis in two kidney transplant recipients while they were hospitalized for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, with rhinosinusal and musculoskeletal involvement, respectively.
Keywords: COVID-19; Mucormycosis; kidney transplant; transplantation.