Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand. Received for publication: February 7, 2011. Reprint request: Prawat Chantharit, B.Sc.(Pharm), M.D., Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand. INTRODUCT...

Context: The current pandemic of COVID-19 affected all people the world. Evidence Acquisition: Most complications SARS-CoV-2 are causally related to severe pneumonia due host immune response in form a cytokine storm. other causes an increased mortality rate among patients secondary infections. Results: Mucormycosis is life-threatening infection that gained much attention ongoing pandemic. A ris...

BACKGROUND Mucormycosis is an uncommon and life-threatening fungal infection. The clinical predictors of outcome were evaluated in patients with invasive mucormycosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed histologically proven cases of invasive mucormycosis in our institution from 1996 to 2012. RESULTS A total of 64 patients were analyzed. The median age was 59 years (interquar...

AIM To investigate mortality risk factors in patients with zygomycosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective case history review of patients diagnosed with proven zygomicosis in 17 centres in Spain. We compared demographics and risk factors in patients who survived, and in those who died. RESULTS We identified twenty-five patients with proven zygomycosis. The primary site of infection was rhi...

PURPOSE To identify significant clinical and radiological findings that distinguish rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) from bacterial orbital cellulitis (BOC). METHODS This study was retrospective, multicenter, case-control study that enrolled 34 cases; 14 cases were diagnosed with ROCM and 20 cases were diagnosed with BOC at three different tertiary hospitals between 2005 and 2013. Th...

Mucormycosis is a life-threatening infection affecting patients with diabetes. It is an angioinvasive disease often resistant to treatment with a debilitating course and high mortality. Here, we report a case of a 45 year old woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented to us with history of right-sided ptosis and facial palsy, and subsequently developed loss of vision and palatal palsy. S...

<p>Mukormikosis rino-orbito-serebral (ROS) adalah penyakit angioinvasif akibat infeksi jamur Mucorales yang sering ditemukan pada pasien diabetes melitus (DM). Penyakit ini memiliki gambaran khas jaringan nekrotik kehitaman disebut eschar, sehingga juga “jamur hitam”. Tingkat mortalitas tinggi terutama jika diagnosis dan tata laksana terlambat. Patogenesis mukormikosis ROS DM antara lain:...

INTRODUCTION Although fungal rhinosinusitis is a rare disorder but number of cases on record has increased manifold during the last decades worldwide There are two basic types of fungal rhinosinusitisinvasive and non-invasive. The invasive form may be of acute invasive and chronic invasive. The non-invasive fungal rhinosinusitis can be of three typesfungus balls or mycetomas, saprophytic coloni...

Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM) is an acute, often fatal, fungal infection caused by members of the class Zygomycetes and the order Mucorales. The genus Rhizopus accounts for most cases of ROCM. The disease is characterized by fungal hyphal invasion of blood vessels resulting in thrombosis and infarction of the nasal, paranasal sinus, orbital, and cerebral tissues. The most commonly ...