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Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19

During the current pandemic of COVID-19, a myriad of manifestations and complications has emerged and are being reported on. We are discovering patients with COVID-19 are at increased risk of acute cardiac injury, arrythmias, thromboembolic complications (pulmonary embolism and acute stroke), and se...

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Autor principal: Werthman-Ehrenreich, Amanda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32972795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.09.032
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description During the current pandemic of COVID-19, a myriad of manifestations and complications has emerged and are being reported on. We are discovering patients with COVID-19 are at increased risk of acute cardiac injury, arrythmias, thromboembolic complications (pulmonary embolism and acute stroke), and secondary infection to name a few. I describe a novel case of COVID-19 in a previously healthy 33-year-old female who presented for altered mental status and proptosis. She was ultimately diagnosed with mucormycosis and orbital compartment syndrome, in addition to COVID-19. Early identification of these high morbidity conditions is key to allow for optimal treatment and improved outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-74937382020-09-17 Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19 Werthman-Ehrenreich, Amanda Am J Emerg Med Article During the current pandemic of COVID-19, a myriad of manifestations and complications has emerged and are being reported on. We are discovering patients with COVID-19 are at increased risk of acute cardiac injury, arrythmias, thromboembolic complications (pulmonary embolism and acute stroke), and secondary infection to name a few. I describe a novel case of COVID-19 in a previously healthy 33-year-old female who presented for altered mental status and proptosis. She was ultimately diagnosed with mucormycosis and orbital compartment syndrome, in addition to COVID-19. Early identification of these high morbidity conditions is key to allow for optimal treatment and improved outcomes. Elsevier Inc. 2021-04 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7493738/ /pubmed/32972795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.09.032 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19
title_fullStr Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19
title_short Mucormycosis with orbital compartment syndrome in a patient with COVID-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32972795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.09.032
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