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Editor, Senior Moderator
Exp Clin Transplant
. 2022 Jan 3.
doi: 10.6002/ect.2021.0317. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Recipient
Şerife Gökbulut Bektaş[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmet Bilal Kandemir, Çağlayan Merve Ayaz, Ayşe Nur Yilmaz, Seval İzdeş
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 increases transplant recipients' susceptibility to rare opportunistic infections as a consequence of the impairment that COVID-19 can cause in the immune system. Mucormycosis is a rare complication but has a high risk of fatal outcome. A 50-year-old woman who received a kidney transplant 10 years previously was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. During follow-up by the inpatient service, the patient developed pain, edema, and proptosis in the right eye. She was diagnosed with rhino-orbitalcerebral mucormycosis. This is the first reported case of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis in a renal transplant recipient with COVID-19 infection.
. 2022 Jan 3.
doi: 10.6002/ect.2021.0317. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Renal Transplant Recipient
Şerife Gökbulut Bektaş[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmet Bilal Kandemir, Çağlayan Merve Ayaz, Ayşe Nur Yilmaz, Seval İzdeş
Affiliations
- PMID: 34981710
- DOI: 10.6002/ect.2021.0317
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 increases transplant recipients' susceptibility to rare opportunistic infections as a consequence of the impairment that COVID-19 can cause in the immune system. Mucormycosis is a rare complication but has a high risk of fatal outcome. A 50-year-old woman who received a kidney transplant 10 years previously was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. During follow-up by the inpatient service, the patient developed pain, edema, and proptosis in the right eye. She was diagnosed with rhino-orbitalcerebral mucormycosis. This is the first reported case of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis in a renal transplant recipient with COVID-19 infection.