A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke

BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection affecting immunocompromised patients, with the rhinocerebral variant as the most common presentation.(1) Garcin syndrome is the progressive involvement of the cranial nerves resulting in total unilateral paralysis of cranial nerves, absence of sens...

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Autores principales: Nagendra, Vijetha, Thakkar, Keta Deepak, Prasad Hrishi, Ajay, Prathapadas, Unnikrishnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33384525
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23643
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author Nagendra, Vijetha
Thakkar, Keta Deepak
Prasad Hrishi, Ajay
Prathapadas, Unnikrishnan
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Thakkar, Keta Deepak
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description BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection affecting immunocompromised patients, with the rhinocerebral variant as the most common presentation.(1) Garcin syndrome is the progressive involvement of the cranial nerves resulting in total unilateral paralysis of cranial nerves, absence of sensory or motor deficits, and not associated with features of raised intracranial pressure.(2) We report a case of invasive rhinocerebral mucormycosis presenting as Garcin syndrome and acute ischemic stroke. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Nagendra V, Thakkar KD, Prasad Hrishi A, Prathapadas U. A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(11):1137–1138.
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spelling pubmed-77510512020-12-30 A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke Nagendra, Vijetha Thakkar, Keta Deepak Prasad Hrishi, Ajay Prathapadas, Unnikrishnan Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection affecting immunocompromised patients, with the rhinocerebral variant as the most common presentation.(1) Garcin syndrome is the progressive involvement of the cranial nerves resulting in total unilateral paralysis of cranial nerves, absence of sensory or motor deficits, and not associated with features of raised intracranial pressure.(2) We report a case of invasive rhinocerebral mucormycosis presenting as Garcin syndrome and acute ischemic stroke. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Nagendra V, Thakkar KD, Prasad Hrishi A, Prathapadas U. A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(11):1137–1138. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7751051/ /pubmed/33384525 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23643 Text en Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Nagendra, Vijetha
Thakkar, Keta Deepak
Prasad Hrishi, Ajay
Prathapadas, Unnikrishnan
A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title_full A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title_short A Rare Case of Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis Presenting as Garcin Syndrome and Acute Ischemic Stroke
title_sort rare case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis presenting as garcin syndrome and acute ischemic stroke
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33384525
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23643
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