Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication

With the evolution of COVID-19 disease, the emergence of more complications associated with COVID-19 is taking place. Mucormycosis is the most common opportunistic fungal infection encountered after COVID-19. In this case report, we describe a case of a 61-year-old male type 2 diabetic with sino-orb...

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Autores principales: Verma, Vinay, Acharya, Sourya, Kumar, Sunil, Gaidhane, Shilpa A, Thatere, Utkarsh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155024
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21061
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author Verma, Vinay
Acharya, Sourya
Kumar, Sunil
Gaidhane, Shilpa A
Thatere, Utkarsh
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description With the evolution of COVID-19 disease, the emergence of more complications associated with COVID-19 is taking place. Mucormycosis is the most common opportunistic fungal infection encountered after COVID-19. In this case report, we describe a case of a 61-year-old male type 2 diabetic with sino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis infection who was treated with conventional guidelines for a recent COVID-19 infection and further presented with generalized tonic-clonic status seizures. Neuroimaging revealed sino-orbital mucormycosis with right frontal lobe abscess. He was treated with anti-epileptics, steroids, amphotericin-B, and functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
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spelling pubmed-88254422022-02-11 Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication Verma, Vinay Acharya, Sourya Kumar, Sunil Gaidhane, Shilpa A Thatere, Utkarsh Cureus Internal Medicine With the evolution of COVID-19 disease, the emergence of more complications associated with COVID-19 is taking place. Mucormycosis is the most common opportunistic fungal infection encountered after COVID-19. In this case report, we describe a case of a 61-year-old male type 2 diabetic with sino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis infection who was treated with conventional guidelines for a recent COVID-19 infection and further presented with generalized tonic-clonic status seizures. Neuroimaging revealed sino-orbital mucormycosis with right frontal lobe abscess. He was treated with anti-epileptics, steroids, amphotericin-B, and functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Cureus 2022-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8825442/ /pubmed/35155024 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21061 Text en Copyright © 2022, Verma et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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Gaidhane, Shilpa A
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Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title_full Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title_fullStr Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title_full_unstemmed Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title_short Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis With Brain Abscess Presenting as Status Epileptucus in a COVID-19-Infected Male: A Calamitous Complication
title_sort rhinocerebral mucormycosis with brain abscess presenting as status epileptucus in a covid-19-infected male: a calamitous complication
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35155024
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21061
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