A 52-year-old Indian woman presented to hospital with a one-week history of right-sided retroorbital pain and facial swelling. She had no other significant past medical history. On examination, she was found to be apyrexial with a pulse rate of 100 min and confused. She also had evidence of right-sided periorbital cellulitis. Cranial nerve examination confirmed decreased visual acuity in the ri...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the successful clinical identification and management of rhino-orbital mucormycosis, a fungal infection with a high mortality rate. PATIENTS AND METHODS A diabetic male patient with a headache and orbital apex syndrome in the right eye was examined using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for a possible fungal infection. Endoscopic surgical re...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2012. 13;69 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/13/69/full/ © Ali Derkaoui et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, di...

Mucormycosis is fungal disease caused by fungus Mucor. It has been seen as a life-threatening complication of Covid-19. 70 times higher prevalence rate in India compared to the world, having only few but expensive treatment options. The triggers Mucor infection Covid-19 patients are immune deficiency and hyperglycaemia use corticosteroid, which favours Mucorales tissue Penetration. mainly six d...

The COVID-19 infection caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 may be associated with a wide range of disease patterns, ranging from mild to life-threatening pneumonia. Mucormycosis is an emerging angioinvasive fungal ubiquitous filamentous fungi Mucorales order class Zygomycetes. prevalence mucormycosis in India about 80 times developed countries. invade deep tissues via inhalation airborne spores, per...