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Covid, Gripe y Hongos.
🚨🚨🚨La #Gripe y el #COVID destruyen una inmunidad natural previamente desconocida que necesitamos para resistir infecciones ➡️ #fúngicas invasivas", dice Nicole Sarden, autoria del primer estudio.
news-medical.net/amp/news/20230…
🚨🚨🚨La #Gripe y el #COVID destruyen una inmunidad natural previamente desconocida que necesitamos para resistir infecciones ➡️ #fúngicas invasivas", dice Nicole Sarden, autoria del primer estudio.
news-medical.net/amp/news/20230…
"Los #hongos como #Aspergillus son tan comunes en nuestro entorno que respiramos cientos o miles de esporas todos los días.
En personas sanas, los hongos no representan una amenaza, pero pueden causar infecciones mortales en personas con sistemas inmunológicos comprometidos...
En personas sanas, los hongos no representan una amenaza, pero pueden causar infecciones mortales en personas con sistemas inmunológicos comprometidos...
🔴🔴🔴Sin embargo, se reconoce cada vez más que➡️ las infecciones virales como la gripe o el SARS-CoV-2 pueden aumentar el riesgo de infecciones invasivas por #Aspergillus incluso en personas sanas".
#fungi ..
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 1/n
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 1/n
#fungi ..
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 2/n
healthline.com/nutrition/can-…
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 2/n
healthline.com/nutrition/can-…
#fungi ..
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 3/n
#Mucor on bread 🍞 ..
Left for at least 6 days, for a full spectrum to appear.. and seems may not just be Mucor, but others like #Aspergillus , #Penicillium , #Fusarium or #Rhizopus 🍄 .. 🤔 .. 3/n
#MayoIDQ: 86M DM
2 wk of R ear pain / nasal discharge
Now: R frontal HA, facial pain, vision loss
PE: R ptosis, CN III, IV, VI palsies, purulence R middle meatus
CT: R sided paranasal sinusitis w/ phlegmonous extension to orbital apex
What is DDx, work up and etiology?
2 wk of R ear pain / nasal discharge
Now: R frontal HA, facial pain, vision loss
PE: R ptosis, CN III, IV, VI palsies, purulence R middle meatus
CT: R sided paranasal sinusitis w/ phlegmonous extension to orbital apex
What is DDx, work up and etiology?
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Diagnosis: Orbital Apex Syndrome
S/S due to involvement of structures in orbital apex: most common vision loss and painful / limited eye movement
CN palsies
* Optic nerve
* Oculomotor nerve
* Trochlear nerve
* First division of trigeminal nerve
* Abducens nerve
Diagnosis: Orbital Apex Syndrome
S/S due to involvement of structures in orbital apex: most common vision loss and painful / limited eye movement
CN palsies
* Optic nerve
* Oculomotor nerve
* Trochlear nerve
* First division of trigeminal nerve
* Abducens nerve
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DDx (overlapping symptoms) of orbital apex syndrome
1. Cavernous sinus thrombosis
2. Superior orbital fissure syndrome
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
DDx (overlapping symptoms) of orbital apex syndrome
1. Cavernous sinus thrombosis
2. Superior orbital fissure syndrome
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Here it is!
#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157
It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157
It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 2 in my #PathogenPortraits series. 'The Clap' (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) b/c who doesn't 💚 green purulent discharge?
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#sciart #microbiology
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very 💛golden💛 #MRSA.
Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
On day 14 of neutropenia, an astute ID fellow noted this finding (photo) while examining a patient with fever. Underlying AML and ongoing chemotherapy.
What do you suspect? What work up do you suggest? Details and #MayoIDQ MCQ to follow...
What do you suspect? What work up do you suggest? Details and #MayoIDQ MCQ to follow...
65M acute myeloid leukemia. Rx: CLAG-M. Prophy ACV, posaconazole, Levo, inhaled pentamidine
D14 neutropenia: fever / chills
Exam: onychomycosis, rapidly evolving lesions in arms and torso (photo)
You asked for skin biopsy. Blood culture will grow what fungus?
D14 neutropenia: fever / chills
Exam: onychomycosis, rapidly evolving lesions in arms and torso (photo)
You asked for skin biopsy. Blood culture will grow what fungus?
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Case diagnosis: disseminated fusariosis
Majority got the diagnosis correctly!
Blood culture: Fusarium sp.
Rx: AmBisome / voriconazole
Hope for neutrophil recovery!!!
Case diagnosis: disseminated fusariosis
Majority got the diagnosis correctly!
Blood culture: Fusarium sp.
Rx: AmBisome / voriconazole
Hope for neutrophil recovery!!!
