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Timeline of case 1.
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On Day 3 after the accident, the patient was transferred to the ICU of our hospital (Figure 1).
Characterisation of the two fungi.
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On Day 36, the BALF culture showed Lichtheimia corymbifera (Figure 2), so pulmonary mucormycosis was diagnosed and D-AMB therapy was initiated.
Lung CT scans obtained of case 1.
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The pulmonary lesions were distinctly disappeared after voriconazole treatment on Day 51 (Figure 3).
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Characterisation of the two fungi.
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On Day 36, the BALF culture showed Lichtheimia corymbifera (Figure 2), so pulmonary mucormycosis was diagnosed and D-AMB therapy was initiated.
Timeline of case 2.
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The patient underwent a tracheotomy and mechanical ventilation on the day of the accident and was transferred to the ICU of our hospital on Day 3 (Figure 4).
Lung CT scans obtained of case 2.
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This patient showed massive haemoptysis from Day 20 and underwent bronchial artery embolisation several times; the CT scan on Day 23 showed cavity lesions in the right upper lobe, right middle lobe and left upper lobe in the lungs (Figure 5). Lichtheimia spp. hyphae were found several times in the patient's sputum smears during the treatment, and the lung CT scans showed an improvement on Day 99 (Figure 5).