Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report

The storm of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis (CAM) has not yet settled, and it has proven itself a disfiguring and potentially life-threatening disease, complicating the course of COVID-19 infection. Mucormycosis is a rare but devastating fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi of the family M...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Rajwinder, Sehgal, Akriti, Khan, Balbir, Budhiraja, Grace, Roychoudhury, Arnav Kr, Kaur, Manjot
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9332981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502084
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3141_21
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author Kaur, Rajwinder
Sehgal, Akriti
Khan, Balbir
Budhiraja, Grace
Roychoudhury, Arnav Kr
Kaur, Manjot
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description The storm of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis (CAM) has not yet settled, and it has proven itself a disfiguring and potentially life-threatening disease, complicating the course of COVID-19 infection. Mucormycosis is a rare but devastating fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi of the family Mucoraceae. We report a rare case of a 37-year-old diabetic male with bilateral rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) where it leads to bilateral central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) as manifestation of the disease. Bilateral CRAO secondary to ROCM is extremely rare. A strong suspicion of CAM in uncontrolled diabetics can result in early diagnosis and management.
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spelling pubmed-93329812022-07-29 Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report Kaur, Rajwinder Sehgal, Akriti Khan, Balbir Budhiraja, Grace Roychoudhury, Arnav Kr Kaur, Manjot Indian J Ophthalmol Case Report The storm of COVID-19-associated mucormycosis (CAM) has not yet settled, and it has proven itself a disfiguring and potentially life-threatening disease, complicating the course of COVID-19 infection. Mucormycosis is a rare but devastating fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi of the family Mucoraceae. We report a rare case of a 37-year-old diabetic male with bilateral rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) where it leads to bilateral central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) as manifestation of the disease. Bilateral CRAO secondary to ROCM is extremely rare. A strong suspicion of CAM in uncontrolled diabetics can result in early diagnosis and management. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-05 2022-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9332981/ /pubmed/35502084 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3141_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title_full Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title_fullStr Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title_short Bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: A case report
title_sort bilateral blindness in a young male of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9332981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502084
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3141_21
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