Abstract
Mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection, which is occasionally seen in immunosuppressive patients, and has high morbidity and mortality rates despite treatment. The case is here reported of a patient admitted to our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis, acute kidney injury, acute cerebral infarct and rhino-orbital mucormycosis.This level of advanced rhino-orbital mucormycosis caused severe cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions has not been reported previously in literature and thus the case is evaluated in respect of the early diagnosis of mucormycosis and treatment.
Highlights
Mucormycosis is the common name given to diseases caused by the Mucorales order of fungi, mucor, rhizopus and absidia, which show a clinical course in the form of organ involvement
On the requested magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a wide area compatible with the area irrigated by the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) was evaluated as acute infarct (Figure 1A and 1B), and widespread tissue necrosis was observed in the rhino-orbital region (Figure 2) was consistent with rhino-orbital mucormycosis (ROM)
Mucormycosis is an opportunistic infection that emerges in immune-compromised patients
Summary
Severe Rhino-orbital Mucormycosis Infection of an Intensive Care Unit Patient: A Case Report. Ayşe Şahin Tutak1*, Hüseyin Avni Fındıklı , Sefer Aslan , Bilge Aydın Türk, Mehmet Şirik and Garip Bekfilavioğlu. Received: 27 November 2017; Accepted: 08 December 2017; Published: 15 December 2017
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