A case report on anesthetic challenges in the post-Covid complication of active mucormycosis: Patient preparedness for family physicians

Mucormycosis is a well-known yet complicated illness that seems benign but behaves malignantly. This article discusses the anesthesia challenges in providing care for a 49-year-old male who presented with post-Covid pneumonia and uncontrolled diabetes along with active mucormycosis and scheduled for...

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Autores principales: Uppalapati, Vamsi K., Ranjan, Rajeev, Singh, Umesh K., Kumar, Himanshu, Shukla, Rajiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9648209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36387678
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2428_21
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Sumario:Mucormycosis is a well-known yet complicated illness that seems benign but behaves malignantly. This article discusses the anesthesia challenges in providing care for a 49-year-old male who presented with post-Covid pneumonia and uncontrolled diabetes along with active mucormycosis and scheduled for functional endoscope sinus surgery (FESS) and debridement of necrotic tissue. We want to illustrate the importance of anticipated difficult airway, while highlighting the toxicity of intravenous amphotericin-B and its combination against anesthesia drugs.

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