18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur

COVID-19 disease was spread rapidly on a global scale. Corticosteroids were believed to reduce the inflammatory lung injury, however, its side effects include increased secondary infections, immunomodulation, and manifestation of latent diabetes mellitus. The incidence of mucormycosis infection was...

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Autores principales: Malipedda, Suneel Kumar, Sudhakar, Pushpalatha, Thangella, Likitha, Vorem, Dinesh, Sattaru, Padmavathi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_182_21
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author Malipedda, Suneel Kumar
Sudhakar, Pushpalatha
Thangella, Likitha
Vorem, Dinesh
Sattaru, Padmavathi
author_facet Malipedda, Suneel Kumar
Sudhakar, Pushpalatha
Thangella, Likitha
Vorem, Dinesh
Sattaru, Padmavathi
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description COVID-19 disease was spread rapidly on a global scale. Corticosteroids were believed to reduce the inflammatory lung injury, however, its side effects include increased secondary infections, immunomodulation, and manifestation of latent diabetes mellitus. The incidence of mucormycosis infection was high in post COVID-19-infected patients. Mucormycosis of femur in patients of post-COVID-19 infection was extremely rare and not yet reported. We report a case of COVID-19 recovered patient with mucormycosis of right distal femur, who underwent 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (18FFDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for additional sites of disease. This case highlights potential of 18FFDG PET/CT in the management of mucormycosis.
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spelling pubmed-103484952023-07-15 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur Malipedda, Suneel Kumar Sudhakar, Pushpalatha Thangella, Likitha Vorem, Dinesh Sattaru, Padmavathi Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Image COVID-19 disease was spread rapidly on a global scale. Corticosteroids were believed to reduce the inflammatory lung injury, however, its side effects include increased secondary infections, immunomodulation, and manifestation of latent diabetes mellitus. The incidence of mucormycosis infection was high in post COVID-19-infected patients. Mucormycosis of femur in patients of post-COVID-19 infection was extremely rare and not yet reported. We report a case of COVID-19 recovered patient with mucormycosis of right distal femur, who underwent 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (18FFDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for additional sites of disease. This case highlights potential of 18FFDG PET/CT in the management of mucormycosis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10348495/ /pubmed/37456191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_182_21 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Interesting Image
Malipedda, Suneel Kumar
Sudhakar, Pushpalatha
Thangella, Likitha
Vorem, Dinesh
Sattaru, Padmavathi
18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title_full 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title_fullStr 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title_full_unstemmed 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title_short 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Rare Case of Post-COVID-19 Mucormycosis of Femur
title_sort 18-f fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in a rare case of post-covid-19 mucormycosis of femur
topic Interesting Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_182_21
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