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However, little is known about the effect of hyperglycemia on MCR outcomes in patients with HMs. We therefore conducted a retrospective cohort study of adult patients hospitalized with MCR and HM or HSCT (n = 103) at MD Anderson Cancer Center from April 2000 through to April 2020. Twenty-three patients (22%) had documented episodes of severe hyperglycemia. Sixty patients had &gt;5 serum glucose measurements within 28 days prior to MCR symptom onset; of those, 14 (23%) met the criteria for persistent hyperglycemia. Sixteen patients (16%) received insulin prior to admission. The crude mortality 42 days from the onset of MCR symptoms in our cohort was 31%. Neither severe nor persistent hyperglycemia were associated with excess mortality. Insulin use prior to index admission was associated with decreased 42-day mortality on univariate analysis (p = 0.031). In conclusion, in a setting of high crude mortality, severe and\/or persistent hyperglycemia do not appear to be associated with excess mortality in patients with HM or HSCT developing MCR. Insulin use prior to MCR diagnosis may be associated with decreased mortality, although further research is needed to validate this effect and to study its mechanistic underpinnings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jof9010045","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,28]],"date-time":"2022-12-28T05:42:48Z","timestamp":1672206168000},"page":"45","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Impact of Hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus on Breakthrough Mucormycosis Outcomes in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies\u2014Complex and Intriguing Associations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Alexander","family":"Franklin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA"},{"name":"Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7784-7256","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sebastian","family":"Wurster","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dierdre B.","family":"Axell-House","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Hospital and Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX 77030, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8051-2940","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dimitrios P.","family":"Kontoyiannis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S23","DOI":"10.1093\/cid\/cir866","article-title":"Epidemiology and Clinical Manifestations of Mucormycosis","volume":"54","author":"Petrikkos","year":"2012","journal-title":"Clin. 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