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Renal Mucormycosis: A Rare Cause of Urinary Tract Infection Leading to End-stage Renal Disease (ESRD).

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Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection often seen in immunocompromised hosts. Isolated renal mucormycosis may however present in immunocompetent children as renal failure and has a uniformly poor prognosis if… Click to show full abstract

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection often seen in immunocompromised hosts. Isolated renal mucormycosis may however present in immunocompetent children as renal failure and has a uniformly poor prognosis if not detected and treated early into the course of illness. We present a 3-year-old boy with unrelenting pyelonephritis in whom serial urine cultures done were negative. A final diagnosis of isolated renal mucormycosis was made by magnetic resonance imaging and renal biopsy.

Keywords: mucormycosis; infection; mucormycosis rare; cause urinary; renal mucormycosis; rare cause

Journal Title: Journal of tropical pediatrics
Year Published: 2018

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