Lung resection from wedge to pneumonectomy as surgical options for pulmonary mucormycosis
Alexander Pohlman, Mohammad Nizamuddin, Fritzie S Albarillo, Zaid M Abdelsattar · 2024
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Description
Alexander Pohlman and co-authors walk through the surgical options for a rare, lethal lung infection, in a 2024 paper built around two cases. Pulmonary mucormycosis strikes mainly people with weakened immunity, and its early signs are nonspecific, so suspicion must come first. The authors lay out the doctrine: bronchoscopy-led workup on suspicion, aggressive antifungal drugs, and early surgical removal of lung when indicated, from a wedge up to the whole lung.
The first patient, a kidney transplant recipient with a mild cough, had a lung lesion that grew over weeks. The second, a leukemia patient coughing blood, had a five-centimeter mass near the lung's root that had obliterated the left pulmonary artery. Both received surgery alongside drug therapy. The authors use the pair to demonstrate how the extent of resection is chosen case by case, and they stress that delay is the deadliest variable in this disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alexander Pohlman, Mohammad Nizamuddin, Fritzie S Albarillo, Zaid M Abdelsattar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |