Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients

Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of several y...

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Autores principales: Fakhar, Mahdi, Zakariaei, Zakaria, Sharifpour, Ali, Banimostafavi, Elham Sadat, Pourmousa, Rostam, Soleymani, Mostafa, Ghasemi, Maryam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8908082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35310314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5502
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author Fakhar, Mahdi
Zakariaei, Zakaria
Sharifpour, Ali
Banimostafavi, Elham Sadat
Pourmousa, Rostam
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Ghasemi, Maryam
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Zakariaei, Zakaria
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description Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of several years of uncontrolled diabetic mellitus.
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spelling pubmed-89080822022-03-17 Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients Fakhar, Mahdi Zakariaei, Zakaria Sharifpour, Ali Banimostafavi, Elham Sadat Pourmousa, Rostam Soleymani, Mostafa Ghasemi, Maryam Clin Case Rep Case Reports Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of several years of uncontrolled diabetic mellitus. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8908082/ /pubmed/35310314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5502 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Fakhar, Mahdi
Zakariaei, Zakaria
Sharifpour, Ali
Banimostafavi, Elham Sadat
Pourmousa, Rostam
Soleymani, Mostafa
Ghasemi, Maryam
Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title_full Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title_fullStr Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title_full_unstemmed Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title_short Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
title_sort post‐covid‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8908082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35310314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5502
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