| report of the first case of invasive fungal sinusitis caused by scopulariopsis acremonium: review of scopulariopsis infections. | scopulariopsis acremonium is a species of saprophytic fungus not previously reported to cause invasive disease in humans, although invasive infections from other species of scopulariopsis have been reported and are reviewed. deep infection with this fungus is associated with a high mortality rate. invasive fungal sinusitis, in general, is a potentially fatal disease that typically affects immunocompromised patients, such as those receiving intensive chemotherapy or undergoing bone marrow transpl ... | 1998 | 9738812 |
| fatal scopulariopsis infection in a lung transplant recipient: a case report. | a case of a fatal scopulariopsis infection is reported in a 63-year-old lung transplantation patient with a 7-week history of dyspnea that presented initially with pericardial and pleural fluid. because of a respiratory arrest, the patient was intubated and received positive pressure ventilation. later, obstructive shock developed due to a pericardial tamponade requiring pericardectomy and then urgent extracorporal membrane oxygenation. the working hypothesis was of disseminated cytomegalovirus ... | 2005 | 16364887 |
| a fatal case of invasive fungal sinusitis by scopulariopsis acremonium in a bone marrow transplant recipient. | a fatal case of scopulariopsis acremonium sinus infection in an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient is reported. rapid vascular diffusion of the fungus to the major head vessels was observed, which led to subsequent repeated cerebral ischemia and death. the presence of hyphae in the right carotid wall might be considered an indirect sign of fungal blood diffusion in the absence of positive blood cultures. the infection developed during the course of prolonged voriconazole proph ... | 2009 | 19386530 |