Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis as a Sequelae of COVID-19 Treatment: A Case Report & Literature Review

A large volume of reports detailing a marked increase in Mucormycosis infections in India has filtered its way into world news articles. These patients frequently have 2 risk factors: recent treatment of COVID-19 with high dose steroids, and uncontrolled diabetes. Recently, at the University of Tenn...

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Autores principales: Deek, Andrew J., Boukovalas, Stefanos, Rathfoot, Christopher J., Gotcher, Jack E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: W.B. Saunders Co 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34655530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2021.09.009
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description A large volume of reports detailing a marked increase in Mucormycosis infections in India has filtered its way into world news articles. These patients frequently have 2 risk factors: recent treatment of COVID-19 with high dose steroids, and uncontrolled diabetes. Recently, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, we successfully treated an uncontrolled diabetic patient with rhinocerebral Mucormycosis as a sequela of his COVID-19 treatment.
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spelling pubmed-84514062021-09-21 Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis as a Sequelae of COVID-19 Treatment: A Case Report & Literature Review Deek, Andrew J. Boukovalas, Stefanos Rathfoot, Christopher J. Gotcher, Jack E. J Oral Maxillofac Surg Article A large volume of reports detailing a marked increase in Mucormycosis infections in India has filtered its way into world news articles. These patients frequently have 2 risk factors: recent treatment of COVID-19 with high dose steroids, and uncontrolled diabetes. Recently, at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, we successfully treated an uncontrolled diabetic patient with rhinocerebral Mucormycosis as a sequela of his COVID-19 treatment. W.B. Saunders Co 2022-02 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8451406/ /pubmed/34655530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joms.2021.09.009 Text en 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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