Silent Invader—Unrevealing Lethal Encounter with Pulmonary Mucormycosis: A Rare Case Report
Abstract
REPORTwas 7, and four minor criteria were positive in severe communityacquired pneumonia (CAP) score.Hence, the patient was shifted to high dependency unit (HDU) and started with intravenous (IV)-antibiotics-meropenem (1 gm 8th hourly), linezolid (600 mg 12th hourly), moxifloxacin (400 mg 24th hourly), and voriconazole (200 mg BD).His serum procalcitonin (PCT) was raised at 0.75 ng/mL, and D-dimer was 1250 ng/mL.Two-dimensional echocardiography (2D-ECHO) and bilateral lower limb color Doppler were done to rule out vascular thrombosis, which came out to be normal.On the 2nd day of admission, the patient's counts were still in the higher range.On direct microscopic examination of early morning sputum, broad aseptate hyphae having right-angle branching, morphologically resembling to Mucorales, were observed in
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