Mucormycosis symptoms | The black fungus infection | Immunosuppressed p...

Mucormycosis symptoms  | The black fungus infection | Immunosuppressed patients | Al Shifa Ayush

Mucormycosis (zygomycosis) is a potentially serious, deadly fungal infection that's infrequently diagnosed.

There are many different fungi may cause mucormycosis; infections with the Mucoraceae family of fungi predominate as causes; hence, in many investigators use the term mucormycosis instead of zygomycosis.

The Risk factors include poorly controlled debilitating diseases (including diabetes), immunosuppression, and trauma (usually serious injuries), and groups of such patients injured in natural disasters.

Most of Symptoms and signs first appear usually in the body area infected and may occur as follows:

fever,

headache,

reddish and swollen skin over nose and sinuses,

dark scabbing in the nose by eye(s),

visual problems,

eye(s) swelling,

facial pain,

coughing sometimes with bloody or dark fluid production,

shortness of breath,

diffuse abdominal pain,

bloody and sometimes dark vomitus,

abdominal distension,

flank pain,

an ulcer with a dark center and sharply defined edges, and

mental-status changes may occur.

Pre diagnosis is made by patient history, physical exam, and the patient's risk factors for mucormycosis; definitive diagnosis is made by identification of fungi in the patient's tissue.

In  all patients require surgical debridement of infected tissue, antifungal drugs (mainly amphotericin B), and good control (treatment) of underlying medical problems such as diabetes.

Most of Complications of mucormycosis can be dire: blindness, organ dysfunction, loss of body tissue due to infection and debridement, and death.

Prognosis (outcomes) of mucormycosis infections range from fair to poor; there is about a 50% death rate that rises to about 85% for rhinocerebral and GI infections.

Prevention of mucormycosis centers on avoidance or control of risk factors (see above), but not all infections are likely to be prevented; there is no vaccine for mucormycosis.

The Research shows mucormycosis infection incidences are increasing, especially with immunosuppressed individuals. More research may occur as the number of infections increase.

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