Disseminated mucormycosis due to Lichtheimia corymbifera during ibrutinib treatment for relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a case report

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Feb;25(2):261-263. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.10.004. Epub 2018 Oct 26.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen / diagnostic imaging
  • Adenine / analogs & derivatives
  • Aged
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Invasive Fungal Infections / diagnosis*
  • Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / complications*
  • Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Mucorales
  • Mucormycosis / diagnosis*
  • Multiple Organ Failure
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis*
  • Opportunistic Infections / microbiology
  • Piperidines
  • Pyrazoles / therapeutic use
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use
  • Thorax / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Piperidines
  • Pyrazoles
  • Pyrimidines
  • ibrutinib
  • Adenine