{"title":"Case Series on Covid Associated Mucormycosis","authors":"S. Sreenath, Saju K G, Elizabeth T George","doi":"10.52314/kjent.2022.v1i1.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection. The rapid increase in the number of cases of mucormycosis during the second wave of covid lead to a new entity called Covid Associated Mucormycosis (CAM). In this case series we discuss 7 cases of CAM who presented to our hospital during the second wave of Covid. We describe their clinical features, investigations, treatment, complications and follow up. Male: Female ratio was 4:3. Mean age of presentation was 57.85. The average time of presentation of symptoms of mucormycosis after covid was 2 weeks. All of them were diabetic. Three of them had cerebral involvement. All of them underwent surgical debridement fol-lowed by antifungal therapy. The mortality rate in our study is 42.86 percentage which is compared with other studies in literature. This is the first study of its kind from a government hospital in Kerala","PeriodicalId":331372,"journal":{"name":"KERALA JOURNAL OF ENT AND HEAD & NECK SURGERY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"KERALA JOURNAL OF ENT AND HEAD & NECK SURGERY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.52314/kjent.2022.v1i1.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection. The rapid increase in the number of cases of mucormycosis during the second wave of covid lead to a new entity called Covid Associated Mucormycosis (CAM). In this case series we discuss 7 cases of CAM who presented to our hospital during the second wave of Covid. We describe their clinical features, investigations, treatment, complications and follow up. Male: Female ratio was 4:3. Mean age of presentation was 57.85. The average time of presentation of symptoms of mucormycosis after covid was 2 weeks. All of them were diabetic. Three of them had cerebral involvement. All of them underwent surgical debridement fol-lowed by antifungal therapy. The mortality rate in our study is 42.86 percentage which is compared with other studies in literature. This is the first study of its kind from a government hospital in Kerala