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Epidemic during pandemic: Black fungus as an example

OBJECTIVE: We are presenting a case of an uncontrolled diabetic patient who had recovered from COVID 19. METHODS AND RESULTS: After recovery, the patient developed nasal obstruction and visited an ENT surgeon, who treated the patient for fungal infection. After few days, the patient complained of se...

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Autores principales: Abdelkarim, Dr. Ahmed, Bsoul, Dr. Enas, Maghsoodi, Dr. Taraneh, Khurana, Dr. Sonam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Mosby, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9381066/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oooo.2022.04.017
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description OBJECTIVE: We are presenting a case of an uncontrolled diabetic patient who had recovered from COVID 19. METHODS AND RESULTS: After recovery, the patient developed nasal obstruction and visited an ENT surgeon, who treated the patient for fungal infection. After few days, the patient complained of severe mobility of all maxillary teeth. On clinical examination, pus discharge was also noted around the posterior teeth. On CBCT examination, severe osteomyelitis, sequestra, and involucra were noted in the palatal bone. Subsequently, tissue culture was performed and mucormycosis was confirmed. The patient underwent extraction of all maxillary teeth, surgical debridement, and pharmacological treatment, and was scheduled for an obturator in August 2021. CONCLUSION: Thousands of cases of mucormycosis, a severe and often fatal invasive fungal infection, have been reported in the wake of the second wave of COVID-19 cases, bringing worldwide attention to this deadly yet neglected disease. Uncontrolled diabetes and corticosteroid therapy provide breeding grounds for mucormycosis in patients with COVID 19. Statement of Ethical Review Written consent and permission was obtained from the patients.
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spelling pubmed-93810662022-08-17 Epidemic during pandemic: Black fungus as an example Abdelkarim, Dr. Ahmed Bsoul, Dr. Enas Maghsoodi, Dr. Taraneh Khurana, Dr. Sonam Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Article OBJECTIVE: We are presenting a case of an uncontrolled diabetic patient who had recovered from COVID 19. METHODS AND RESULTS: After recovery, the patient developed nasal obstruction and visited an ENT surgeon, who treated the patient for fungal infection. After few days, the patient complained of severe mobility of all maxillary teeth. On clinical examination, pus discharge was also noted around the posterior teeth. On CBCT examination, severe osteomyelitis, sequestra, and involucra were noted in the palatal bone. Subsequently, tissue culture was performed and mucormycosis was confirmed. The patient underwent extraction of all maxillary teeth, surgical debridement, and pharmacological treatment, and was scheduled for an obturator in August 2021. CONCLUSION: Thousands of cases of mucormycosis, a severe and often fatal invasive fungal infection, have been reported in the wake of the second wave of COVID-19 cases, bringing worldwide attention to this deadly yet neglected disease. Uncontrolled diabetes and corticosteroid therapy provide breeding grounds for mucormycosis in patients with COVID 19. Statement of Ethical Review Written consent and permission was obtained from the patients. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2022-09 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9381066/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oooo.2022.04.017 Text en Copyright © 2022 Published by Mosby, Inc. 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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