Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection particularly jeopardized by delayed diagnosis and initiation of treatment. The incidence could be increasing due to longer survival of immune-suppressed patients. With the advent of newer antifungals, improvements in surgical techniques, and advances in diagnostic technology (both in the microbiology lab and in radiology), w...

BACKGROUND Mucormycosis is a fungal infection with the following 5 classic forms: cutaneous, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, disseminated, and rhinocerebral. The rhinocerebral form can be rapidly progressive and invasive with a high mortality rate. We present a case of a 38-year-old man with invasive mucormycosis that led to a basilar artery territory stroke. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is an unusu...

Mucormycosis is a rare complication of immunosuppression. Most of the reported cases have been rhinocerebral or disseminated. Isolated renal involvement is extremely rare and until now less than 30 patients have been reported in the English literature. Isolated renal mucormycosis with renal artery rupture in a liver transplant patient has not been reported so far. Herein we report an extremely ...

Invasive fungal infections are associated with morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Rhinocerebral region infections are mainly due to opportunistic fungal pathogens. Although Zygomycosis and Aspergillosis are two major causes of paranasal infections, reports of combined Mucormycosis and Aspergillosis infections of rhinocerebral region are limited. We report a case of fatal, co...

In the past decade, mucormycosis has emerged as an important lethal infection in diabetics and other immunocompromised hosts. Rhinosinusitis, pansinusitis, rhino-orbital and rhinocerebral are the common classical manifestations of mucormycosis. However, primary gastrointestinal (GI) mucormycosis is an uncommon disease associated with a high mortality rate. Stomach is the most common site involv...

SUMMARY A 60-year-old woman developed right-eye vision loss secondary to rhinocerebral mucormycosis. Routine MR imaging sequences including enhanced MR imaging showed normal optic nerves, but a diffusion-weighted sequence and apparent diffusion coefficient maps revealed markedly restricted diffusion in the right optic nerve. This MR imaging abnormality of optic nerve infarction due to mucormyco...

mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection caused by filamentous fungi of the mucoraceae family. the genera most commonly responsible are mucor or rhizopus. the disease occurs mostly in association with diabetic ketoacidosis. mucormycosis has an extremely high death rate even when aggressive surgery is done. death rates range from 25-85% depending on the body area involved.a case of rhinocere...

Mucormycosis is a clinical entity attributed to opportunistic fungal infection of order Mucorales. This includes several pathogenic subtypes. It commonly affects the rhinocerebral sites and the immunocompromized patients with devastating results. Visceral mucormycosis is a relatively rare complication. We report the first free sigmoid colon perforation secondary to invasive mucormycosis and dis...

Mucormycosis is a fatal opportunistic fungal infection that typically occurs in immunocompromised patients. The classical manifestation of mucormycosis is a rhinocerebral infection, and although primary gastrointestinal infection is uncommon, it has an extremely high mortality rate in immunocompromised patients. Furthermore, cases of gastrointestinal mucormycosis in an immunocompetent host are ...

 Background: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is a fatal infection typically affecting diabetic or immunosuppressed patients. In most cases, infection is caused by inhalation of fungal spores. Mortality rate of patients is very high (40-85%).  Case Presentation: In this study, three diabetic patients with rhinocerebral mucormycosis were presented. The etiologic agents of mucormycosis in two patien...