Rapidly progressive rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis in a patient with type 2 diabetes: A case report.
Exp Ther Med
; 13(3): 1054-1056, 2017 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
With the ongoing economic development, lifestyle changes and an aging population, diabetes mellitus has be come one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the world. Rhino-orbito-cerebral (ROC) mucormycosis is a rare, acute and angioinvasive fungal infection that can be fatal. Mucormycosis occurs exclusively in immunocompromised patients with diabetes mellitus and other types of immunodeficiency and has three subtypes Rhino-maxillary, rhino-orbital and ROC mucormycosis. The present study reported on a case of ROC mucormycosis in a patient with diabetic ketoacidosis. In the present case, the pathogen afflicted all of the above organs, including the left eye, nasal cavity, hard palate and cerebrum.
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Exp Ther Med
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2017
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