Abstract:
We describe the clinical course and successful treatment of a previously healthy man who, after experiencing trauma, presented with severe cutaneous mucormycosis due to Apophysomyces elegans and subsequently developed secondary renal infection. A multidisciplinary approach employing aggressive surgical debridement and therapy with hyperbaric oxygen, liposomal amphotericin B, and interferon-gamma was successful in controlling his infection, obviating the need for nephrectomy.
Okhuysen, Rex, Kapusta, Fife, , , , , (1994). Successful treatment of extensive posttraumatic soft-tissue and renal infections due to Apophysomyces elegans. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 1994 Aug;19(2):329-31. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7986910