Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients
Abstract Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of...
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| author | Mahdi Fakhar Zakaria Zakariaei Ali Sharifpour Elham Sadat Banimostafavi Rostam Pourmousa Mostafa Soleymani Maryam Ghasemi |
| author_facet | Mahdi Fakhar Zakaria Zakariaei Ali Sharifpour Elham Sadat Banimostafavi Rostam Pourmousa Mostafa Soleymani Maryam Ghasemi |
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| description | Abstract Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of several years of uncontrolled diabetic mellitus. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-064386a3c92f495e9d2995f275a2d8412022-12-22T02:38:44ZengWileyClinical Case Reports2050-09042022-03-01103n/an/a10.1002/ccr3.5502Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patientsMahdi Fakhar0Zakaria Zakariaei1Ali Sharifpour2Elham Sadat Banimostafavi3Rostam Pourmousa4Mostafa Soleymani5Maryam Ghasemi6Toxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranToxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranToxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranToxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranToxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranToxoplasmosis Research Center Communicable Diseases Institute Iranian National Registry Center for Lophomoniasis and Toxoplasmosis Imam Khomeini Hospital Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranDepartment of Pathology Faculty of Medicine Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Sari IranAbstract Mucormycosis is a rare, invasive, quickly progressing fungal infection that generally affects patients who are immunocompromised. If left untreated, the disease is characterized by progressive necrosis and is often fatal. We present two cases of post‐COVID‐19 mucormycosis with a history of several years of uncontrolled diabetic mellitus.https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5502diabetes mellitusmaxillary osteonecrosismucormycosispost‐COVID‐19 |
| spellingShingle | Mahdi Fakhar Zakaria Zakariaei Ali Sharifpour Elham Sadat Banimostafavi Rostam Pourmousa Mostafa Soleymani Maryam Ghasemi Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients Clinical Case Reports diabetes mellitus maxillary osteonecrosis mucormycosis post‐COVID‐19 |
| title | Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| title_full | Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| title_fullStr | Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| title_short | Post‐COVID‐19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| title_sort | post covid 19 maxillary osteonecrosis and floating maxillary teeth due to mucormycosis in two uncontrolled diabetic patients |
| topic | diabetes mellitus maxillary osteonecrosis mucormycosis post‐COVID‐19 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5502 |
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