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Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series
Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection indicating a high mortality rate. Among six varieties of involved sites, rhino cerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is not the most uncommon. During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the increase, in predisposing conditions incidence rate of mucormycosis progressed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36726898 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33077 |
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author | Reddy, Prashanthi Parihar, Ajay Singh, Renu AC, Varsha Sutare, Ajay |
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description | Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection indicating a high mortality rate. Among six varieties of involved sites, rhino cerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is not the most uncommon. During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the increase, in predisposing conditions incidence rate of mucormycosis progressed. For aggressive treatment, an early diagnosis can be armored to reduce morbidity and mortality. Clinically RCM poses non-specific symptoms and signs delaying diagnosis. This is associated with orbital cellulitis and sinusitis, one-sided headache behind the eye, diplopia, blurring of visions, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, epistaxis, nasal hypoesthesia, facial pain and numbness, and a history of black nasal discharge. Not commonly the complications of cranial nerve involvement have been reported. In the present case series, three presentations of facial nerve palsy in COVID-19 associated with mucormycosis are added to the literature database. |
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spelling | pubmed-98863732023-01-31 Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series Reddy, Prashanthi Parihar, Ajay Singh, Renu AC, Varsha Sutare, Ajay Cureus Dentistry Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection indicating a high mortality rate. Among six varieties of involved sites, rhino cerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is not the most uncommon. During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the increase, in predisposing conditions incidence rate of mucormycosis progressed. For aggressive treatment, an early diagnosis can be armored to reduce morbidity and mortality. Clinically RCM poses non-specific symptoms and signs delaying diagnosis. This is associated with orbital cellulitis and sinusitis, one-sided headache behind the eye, diplopia, blurring of visions, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, epistaxis, nasal hypoesthesia, facial pain and numbness, and a history of black nasal discharge. Not commonly the complications of cranial nerve involvement have been reported. In the present case series, three presentations of facial nerve palsy in COVID-19 associated with mucormycosis are added to the literature database. Cureus 2022-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9886373/ /pubmed/36726898 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33077 Text en Copyright © 2022, Reddy 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. |
spellingShingle | Dentistry Reddy, Prashanthi Parihar, Ajay Singh, Renu AC, Varsha Sutare, Ajay Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title | Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title_full | Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title_fullStr | Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title_full_unstemmed | Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title_short | Facial Nerve Palsy as Complication in COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis: A Case Series |
title_sort | facial nerve palsy as complication in covid-19 associated mucormycosis: a case series |
topic | Dentistry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9886373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36726898 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33077 |
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