Mucormycosis: association with deferoxamine therapy
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Mucormycosis: association with deferoxamine therapy.
M ucormycosis is an uncommon acute and often fatal opportunistic fungal infection that usually occurs in patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, acute leukemias, or other immunosuppressive conditions [1,2]. A new association, that of mucormycosis occurring in patients receiving deferoxamine therapy for iron or aluminum excess, has been reported with increasing frequency since 1986 [3...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0002-9343
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9343(89)80836-8