Souvik Dubey, Debaleena Mukherjee, Peyalee Sarkar, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Barman, Manimoy Bandopadhyay, Alak Pandit, Amitabha Sengupta, Sudip Das, Soumitra Ghosh, Souvik Adhikari, Partha Sundar Biswas, Pranabananda Pal, Himadri Roy, Nilanjana Patra, Amrita Das, Pallab Sinha, Md Karimulla Mondal, Smiti Rani Shrivastava, Kumkum Bhattacharya, Madhumita Mukhopadhyay, Kamraan Ahmed, Tushar Kanti Halder, Mainak Saha, Kaoshar Ahmed, Souvik Maity, Abhishek Mandal, Deblina Chatterjee, Srijana Saha, Arpita Chunakar, Alangkar Saha, Biman Kanti Ray
AIMS: 1: Describe the epidemiology and determine risk factors for COVID-19 associated mucormycosis. 2: Elaborate the clinical spectrum of Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis (ROCM), pattern of neuroaxis involvement and it's radiological correlates. METHODS: Observational study. Consecutive, confirmed cases of mucormycosis (N = 55) were included. A case of mucormycosis was defined as one who had clinical and radiological features consistent with mucormycosis along with demonstration of the fungus in tissue via KOH mount/culture/histopathological examination (HPE)...
September 2021: Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome