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Mucormycosis

Última revisão das evidências: 22 Feb 2026
Última atualização do tópico: 11 Apr 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • sinus and facial pain
  • eye pain, blurred vision
  • proptosis
  • cranial nerve palsies
  • dry cough, with or without dyspnea
  • skin nodules
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • fever
  • periorbital cellulitis
  • viscid, dark brown-black nasal discharge
  • focal sensory/motor neurologic deficits and altered mental status
  • necrotic eschar
  • hemoptysis
  • abdominal pain and distension
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • peritonitis
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Fatores de risco

  • diabetes mellitus ± diabetic ketoacidosis
  • hematologic malignancy
  • neutropenia
  • iron overload or use of deferoxamine
  • use of corticosteroids
  • hematopoietic and solid organ transplantation, graft-versus-host disease
  • breakdown of skin and soft tissue
  • malnutrition
  • prematurity
  • liver cirrhosis
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • CBC
  • basic metabolic profile
  • ABG
  • urinalysis
  • serum ketone level
  • CT sinuses and brain
  • MRI sinuses and brain
  • CT chest with contrast
  • nasal endoscopy
  • gastrointestinal endoscopy
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and/or transbronchial biopsy fungal culture
  • histopathology of biopsy
  • microbiology of biopsy
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Novos exames

  • polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

suitable for surgery

unsuitable for surgery

CONTÍNUA

treatment failure

Colaboradores

Autores

Rachana M. Palnitkar, MD
Rachana M. Palnitkar

Infectious Diseases

Private Practice

Los Gatos

CA

Declarações

RMP declares that she has no competing interests.

Michael Sands, MD, MPH & TM, FIDSA
Michael Sands

Professor of Medicine

College of Medicine

University of Florida

Jacksonville

FL

Declarações

MS declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Michail Lionakis, MD, ScD

Infectious Diseases Fellow

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

NIH

Bethesda

MD

Disclosures

ML declares that he has no competing interests.

Rachael Morris-Jones, PhD, FRCP, PCME

Dermatology Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer

Kings College Hospital

London

UK

Disclosures

RMJ declares that she has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Pham D, Howard-Jones AR, Sparks R, et al. Epidemiology, modern diagnostics, and the management of mucorales infections. J Fungi (Basel). 2023 Jun 12;9(6):659.Full text  Abstract

Spellberg B, Edwards J Jr, Ibrahim A. Novel perspectives on mucormycosis: pathophysiology, presentation, and management. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005 Jul;18(3):556-69.Full text  Abstract

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mucormycosis: clinical overview of mucormycosis. Apr 2024 [internet publication].Full text

Cornely OA, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Arenz D, et al. Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Dec;19(12):e405-21.Full text  Abstract

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