Disseminated Gastrointestinal Mucormycosis in Immunocompromised Disease

Abstract

Mucormycosis is an uncommon opportunistic fungal infection mostly affecting immunocompromised patients and gastrointestinal mucormycosis is a rare and life-threatening. We describe a 31-year-old man with a history of idiopathic cyclic neutropenia who developed perforations of the stomach and intestine and intra-abdominal bleeding due to disseminated gastrointestinal mucormycosis after the initial operation.

Keywords

• gastrointestinal tract
• immunocompromised host
• mucormycosis