ArticleBMJ case reports2018
Orbitocerebral mucormycosis and intracranial haemorrhage: a role for caution with steroids in suspected giant cell arteritis.
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- Rapidly Progressive Mucormycosis Presenting as Giant Cell Arteritis as a First Presentation of Diabetes in a Woman With Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis of Fatal Balamuthia Amoebic Encephalitis: A Case Report.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Associated Rhino-Orbital Mucormycosis Complicated by Gangrenous and Bone Necrosis-A Case Report from Honduras.Vaccines · 2021Article
- Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Mucormycosis: An Update.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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Abstract
A 75-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with complete loss of vision in his right eye and severe headaches for the past 24 hours. He had been treated for suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA) with high-dose corticosteroids which were being tapered to stop after an inconclusive right temporal artery biopsy and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) value of 8. His current acute presentation, however, raised further concern for partially treated GCA and precipitated treatment with pulsed methylprednisolone. The patient, taking metformin, developed diabetic ketoacidosis and was transferred to the intensive care unit where a swollen, painful right eye with chemosis and complete ophthalmoplegia was subsequently revealed to be secondary to cavernous sinus thrombosis. Rhino-orbital skin necrosis with positive samples for the organism
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