Abstract Rhinocerebral mucormycosis has emerged as a common coinfection in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients during the convalescence period. Frequent spread of from sinonasal mucosa to bone, neck spaces, orbit, and brain occurs along perivascular/perineural routes or through direct invasion. Brain involvement represents severe manifestation is often associated with poor functional o...

Rhinocerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is a rare, fulminant fungal infection that usually occurs in diabetic or immunocompromised patients. The mortality rate has been reduced recently with the advent of amphotericin B combined with aggressive surgery. Eleven RCM patients have been treated over the past five years at Srinagarind Hospital. Eight had underlying diabetes, five had renal failure and thre...

OBJECTIVE Mucormycosis is an aggressive fungal infection which may still cause fatal complications. However, the rarity of this disease has made optimal treatment a controversial issue. This study aimed to evaluate the use of topical amphotericin B in endoscopic management of rhinocerebral mucormycosis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty patients with infection limited to the nose and sinuses were s...

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number Ukraine and world clinical cases of various forms mucoromycosis. It can be associated with severe immunosuppression caused by transmitted SARS-CoV-2, patients diabetes, which creates favourable conditions for development fungal microflora. Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is usually often fatal if not diagnosed early actively treated. Necrotic...

Zygomycosis (mucormycosis) is a rare but highly invasive infection caused by fungi belonging to the order Mucorales, which includes the genera Rhizopus, Mucor, Rhizomucor, Absidia, Apophysomyces, Saksenaea, Cunninghamella, Cokeromyces and Syncephalastrum. This type of infection is usually associated with hematologic diseases, diabetic ketoacidosis and organ transplantation. The most common form...

Rhinocerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is an opportunistic, potentially life-threatening fungal disease. This infective disease invades not only the facial sinuses, but also the maxilla, zygoma, and rhino-cerebral structures with a massive destruction of the facial skeletons and soft tissue. This disease progresses within various underlying diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, hematologic malignancy,...

An 18-year-old woman with poorly controlled insulindependent diabetes mellitus had 3 days of worsening nasal discharge, right facial pain and erythema, and headache. Lumbar puncture showed 250 nucleated cells/ L with neutrophil predominance, elevated protein of 81 mg/dL, and normal glucose. She was treated for presumed meningitis, but then rapidly developed right-side symptoms including facial ...

PATIENT Female, 15 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Mucormycosis Symptoms: Lower extremity swelling • respiratory failure • short of breath MEDICATION - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Infectious Diseases. OBJECTIVE Rare disease. BACKGROUND Mucormycosis is an uncommonly encountered clinical syndrome in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected patients. The syndrome is well described in solid organ tr...

BACKGROUND/AIM Mucormycosis is a rare invasive fungal infection most commonly encountered in the immunocompromised host. We analyzed 51 adult patients treated for mucormycosis between 2003 and 2013 and recorded at a tertiary university hospital in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined the following data for all patients: age, sex, predisposing disease, symptoms, treatment, surgical proced...