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COVID-19 associated mucormycosis in Assiut University Hospitals: A multidisciplinary dilemma

مؤلف البحث
Sahar Farghly Youssif, Marwa M Abdelrady, Ahmed Atef Thabet, Mohamed A Abdelhamed, Mohamed Omar A Gad, Ahmed Mohmmed Abu-Elfatth, Ghada Mohamed Saied, Islam Goda, Abdelazeem M Algammal, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Nessren M Abd el-Rady, Helal F Hetta, Soheir M
تاريخ البحث
مجلة البحث
Scientific Reports
الناشر
Nature Publishing Group UK
عدد البحث
Volume 12, Issue 1
موقع البحث
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&cluster=5148923910269163907&btnI=1&hl=en
سنة البحث
2022
صفحات البحث
10494
ملخص البحث

Mucormycosis is a life-threatening opportunistic angioinvasive fungal infection. We aimed to describe the frequency, presentations, predictors, and in-hospital outcome of mucormycosis patients in the scope of CoronaVirusDisease-19 (COVID-19) during the third viral pandemic wave. This cross-sectional retrospective study included all patients who fulfilled the criteria of mucormycosis with concurrent confirmed covid19 infection admitted to Assuit University Hospital between March 2021 and July 2021. Overall, 433 patients with definite covid-19 infection, of which 33 (7.63%) participants were infected with mucormycosis. Mucormycosis was predominantly seen in males (21 vs. 12; p = 0.01). Diabetes mellitus (35% vs. 63.6%; p < 0.001), hypertension (2% vs.45.5%; p 0.04), and Smoking (26.5% vs. 54.5%; p < 0.001) were all significantly higher in mucormycosis patients. Inflammatory markers, especially E.S.R …