Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence

Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection that commonly affects patients who are immuno-compromised. It invariably presents as an acute spreading infection, with very poor prognosis if not treated promptly. We report a case of mucormycosis in immuno-competent elderly patient, presenting...

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Autores principales: Nilesh, Kumar, Malik, Neelima A., Belgaumi, Uzma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medicina Oral S.L. 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52064
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description Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection that commonly affects patients who are immuno-compromised. It invariably presents as an acute spreading infection, with very poor prognosis if not treated promptly. We report a case of mucormycosis in immuno-competent elderly patient, presenting as oro-antral communication. Patient’s history, clinical and laboratory evaluation revealed no systemic predisposing factors. The disease was non-fulminant, localized and showed remission after local measures, without parentral anti-fungal therapy. Key words:Mucormycosis, maxilla, elderly, oroantral communication.
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spelling pubmed-44833472015-07-07 Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence Nilesh, Kumar Malik, Neelima A. Belgaumi, Uzma J Clin Exp Dent Case Report Mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection that commonly affects patients who are immuno-compromised. It invariably presents as an acute spreading infection, with very poor prognosis if not treated promptly. We report a case of mucormycosis in immuno-competent elderly patient, presenting as oro-antral communication. Patient’s history, clinical and laboratory evaluation revealed no systemic predisposing factors. The disease was non-fulminant, localized and showed remission after local measures, without parentral anti-fungal therapy. Key words:Mucormycosis, maxilla, elderly, oroantral communication. Medicina Oral S.L. 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4483347/ /pubmed/26155356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52064 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title_full Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title_fullStr Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title_full_unstemmed Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title_short Mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: Report of a rare incidence
title_sort mucormycosis in a healthy elderly patient presenting as oro-antral fistula: report of a rare incidence
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/jced.52064
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