Severe Fungal Infections Following Blunt Traumatic Injuries: A 5-Year Multicenter Descriptive Study

Post-traumatic fungal infections are an uncommon (2-17% of all fungal infections are post-traumatic), yet life threatening complication secondary to major traumatic injury, that develop when fungal spores inoculate damaged tissue at the injury or wound site, leading to aggressive proliferation of spores and potential angioinvasion. [1-5] Sometimes characterized as a concomitant condition of a major traumatic injury, post-traumatic fungal infections can compromise the immune system, rapidly causing vessel thrombosis and tissue necrosis from a wound site or systemically.

Source: Injury - October 13, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Constance McGraw, Matthew Carrick, Francie Ekengren, Gina Berg, Mark Lieser, Alessandro Orlando, Robert Madayag, Allen Tanner, Michael Kelly, Kaysie Banton, David Bar-Or Source Type: research