Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment

Mucormycosis is a rare life threatening fungal infection predominately seen in immunocompromised or diabetic patients. The following case is of a known type II diabetic patient who presented with sepsis and sudden unilateral loss of vision secondary to infective rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. T...

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Autores principales: Chow, Vanessa, Khan, Sheema, Balogun, Adeola, Mitchell, David, Mühlschlegel, Fritz A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4348455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.12.002
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author Chow, Vanessa
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description Mucormycosis is a rare life threatening fungal infection predominately seen in immunocompromised or diabetic patients. The following case is of a known type II diabetic patient who presented with sepsis and sudden unilateral loss of vision secondary to infective rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. Treatment of the condition required extensive surgical intervention and medical management for a life saving outcome.
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spelling pubmed-43484552015-03-07 Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment Chow, Vanessa Khan, Sheema Balogun, Adeola Mitchell, David Mühlschlegel, Fritz A. Med Mycol Case Rep Article Mucormycosis is a rare life threatening fungal infection predominately seen in immunocompromised or diabetic patients. The following case is of a known type II diabetic patient who presented with sepsis and sudden unilateral loss of vision secondary to infective rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis. Treatment of the condition required extensive surgical intervention and medical management for a life saving outcome. Elsevier 2014-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4348455/ /pubmed/25750854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2014.12.002 Text en © 2015 International Society for Human and Animal Mycology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment
title Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment
title_full Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment
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title_full_unstemmed Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment
title_short Invasive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a diabetic patient – the need for prompt treatment
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