Yamin Hasan S, Alastal Amro Y, Bakri Izzedin
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Division, Internal Medicine Department, Makassed Hospital, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Palestine.
Department of Clinical Pathology, Makassed Hospital, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Palestine.
Turk Thorac J. 2017 Jan;18(1):1-5. doi: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2017.16033. Epub 2017 Jan 1.
Mucor is a ubiquitous fungus that belongs to the family of Zygomycetes, though a noninvasive saprophyte in the normal host, it can cause life threatening infections in immunocompromised patients, including angioinvasive pulmonary mucormycosis; a disease notorious for its high mortality. This article tracks the ever-changing management of pulmonary mucormycosis over the last 130 years, and how this affected mortality.
毛霉是一种广泛存在的真菌,属于接合菌纲。虽然在正常宿主中它是一种非侵袭性腐生菌,但在免疫功能低下的患者中,它可引起危及生命的感染,包括血管侵袭性肺毛霉病;这种疾病因其高死亡率而声名狼藉。本文追溯了过去130年来肺毛霉病不断变化的治疗方法,以及这对死亡率的影响。