Summary
Definition
História e exame físico
Principais fatores diagnósticos
- presença de fatores de risco
- dor facial e no seio nasal
- dor nos olhos, visão turva
- proptose
- paralisia de nervo craniano
- tosse seca, com ou sem dispneia
- nódulos cutâneos
Outros fatores diagnósticos
- febre
- celulite periorbital
- secreção nasal viscosa, com coloração marrom escura-negra
- deficits neurológicos motores/sensoriais focais e estado mental alterado
- escara necrótica
- hemoptise
- dor e distensão abdominal
- hemorragia digestiva
- peritonite
Fatores de risco
- diabetes mellitus ± cetoacidose diabética
- neoplasia hematológica
- neutropenia
- sobrecarga de ferro ou uso de desferroxamina
- uso de corticosteroides
- transplantes hematopoéticos e de órgão sólido, doença do enxerto contra o hospedeiro
- decomposição cutânea e de tecidos moles
- desnutrição
- prematuridade
- cirrose hepática
Investigações diagnósticas
Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas
- Hemograma completo
- perfil metabólico básico
- gasometria arterial
- urinálise
- nível sérico de corpos cetônicos
- tomografia computadorizada (TC) dos seios nasais e do cérebro
- ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) dos seios nasais e do cérebro
- TC do tórax com contraste
- endoscopia nasal
- endoscopia digestiva
Investigações a serem consideradas
- broncoscopia com lavagem broncoalveolar e/ou cultura de fungos por biópsia transbrônquica
- histopatologia da biópsia
- microbiologia da biópsia
Novos exames
- reação em cadeia da polimerase
Algoritmo de tratamento
adequado para cirurgia
não adequado para cirurgia
falha do tratamento
Colaboradores
Autores
Rachana M. Palnitkar, MD
Infectious Diseases
Private Practice
Los Gatos
CA
Declarações
RMP declares that she has no competing interests.
Michael Sands, MD, MPH & TM, FIDSA
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
Declarações
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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References
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
Reference articles
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Differentials
- Aspergilose
- Sinusite bacteriana
- Celulite periorbital bacteriana
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- Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis
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