A rare case of fatal gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis

Mohammed Alsaeed; Mohamed Mursi; Abdelkarim Bahloul; Assem Alrumeh; Nahlah Arab; Mohannad Alrasheed

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01709

A rare case of fatal gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis

IDCases. 2023 Feb 13:31:e01709. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01709. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Mohammed Alsaeed^{1

2}, Mohamed Mursi¹, Abdelkarim Bahloul¹, Assem Alrumeh³, Nahlah Arab⁴, Mohannad Alrasheed⁵

Affiliations

¹ Medicine Department, Infectious Disease Division, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Alfaisal University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Pathology Department, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ General Surgery Department, Colorectal Surgery Division, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Radiology Department, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Basidiobolomycosis is an uncommon fungal infection caused by the environmental saprophyte Basidiobolus ranarum. Basidiobolomycosis typically manifests as a subcutaneous infection, and rarely affects the gastrointestinal tract. It lacks a distinct clinical manifestation, and most initial cases are incorrectly identified. We report a 69-year-old male patient who presented to the emergency department with history of abdominal pain, fever, and weight loss for 1 year that turned to be gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis.

Keywords: Basidiobolomycosis; Eosinophilic colitis; Gastrointestinal Basidiobolomycosis; Splendore–hoeppli phenomenon.

Publication types

Case Reports