Mucormycosis is, by definition, an extremely serious disease with a very high mortality rate during treatment: for forms with damage to the paranasal sinuses, the orbit of the eye and the brain, it reaches 50%, the same is for skin forms (it occurs after injuries and burns). When the lungs and other organs are affected, the mortality rate is even higher (up to 80-95%). "The treatment is also extremely traumatic: toxic antifungal antibiotics combined with surgical removal of the affected organs (jaw, eyes, lobes of the ...
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Mucormycosis is, by definition, an extremely serious disease with a very high mortality rate during treatment: for forms with damage to the paranasal sinuses, the orbit of the eye and the brain, it reaches 50%, the same is for skin forms (it occurs after injuries and burns). When the lungs and other organs are affected, the mortality rate is even higher (up to 80-95%). "The treatment is also extremely traumatic: toxic antifungal antibiotics combined with surgical removal of the affected organs (jaw, eyes, lobes of the lungs)," the doctor says. - The disease, taking into account the color of the lesions, can be called "black death". Unsurprisingly, the increase in its frequency amid the pandemic in India has sparked some panic, although the number of cases is low overall. The insidiousness of the disease is that it manifests itself, first of all, in diabetic patients against the background of decompensation and the use of steroid hormones for the treatment of covid, after the end of the acute phase of COVID-19, when it could be a question of recovery. The risk factor here is the use of mechanical ventilation. Mechanical ventilation in general often provokes various nosocomial infections, especially when immunity is suppressed by glucocorticoids and drugs with immunosuppressive effects, which are widely used to treat covid-19.
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