Flores Chávez Ana, Rodriguez Temoche Lourdes, Alarcón Rojas Karen, Pereyra López Sonia
Médico Pediatra. Servicio de Medicina B, Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño. Lima, Perú; Docente de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú.
Médico Pediatra. Servicio de Medicina B, Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño. Lima, Perú.
Rev Gastroenterol Peru. 2019 Apr-Jun;39(2):193-196.
Mucormycosis is a rare, usually fatal, opportunistic infection that mostly affects people with immune deficiency or associated pathologies. There are few reports of this disease in patients without the traditional risk factors, still unknown what could be the real predisposing causes involved. The forms of presentation are rhinocerebral, cutaneous, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and disseminated. This is why, due to the difficult diagnosis, high mortality and uncommon presentation, we report the case of a 4-year-old child without immunodeficiency or background pathologies who developed an esophagogastric mucormycosis.
毛霉菌病是一种罕见的、通常致命的机会性感染,主要影响免疫功能低下或有相关病理状况的人群。在没有传统危险因素的患者中,关于这种疾病的报道很少,其真正的诱发原因仍不清楚。其表现形式有鼻脑型、皮肤型、肺型、胃肠型和播散型。正因为如此,由于诊断困难、死亡率高且表现不常见,我们报告一例4岁儿童患食管胃毛霉菌病的病例,该儿童无免疫缺陷或基础疾病。