Multidisciplinary Management of COVID-Associated Mucormycosis Syndemic in India.

ABSTRACT: The study aimed to determine clinical presentation, contributing factors, medical and surgical management, and outcome of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated mucormycosis (CAM). A cross-sectional, single-center study was conducted on patients receiving multidisciplinary treatment for mucormycosis following the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic from April to June 2021 in India. Clinicoepidemiological factors were analyzed, 30-day overall survival and disease-specific survival were determined, and t-test was used to determine the statistical significance. A total of 215 patients were included in the study, the cases were stratified into sino-nasal 95 (44.2%), sino-naso-orbital 32 (14.9%), sino-naso-palatal 55 (25.6%), sino-naso-cerebral 12 (5.6%), sino-naso-orb

SUBMITTER: Mehta R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493768 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature