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ArticleCureus2024

Diagnostic Challenges in Rhino-Orbito-Cerebral Mucormycosis With Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertensive Emergency, and Excess Alcohol Consumption.

Moaz Mohsin, Oluwaseyi Owasoyo, Hafiz Muhammad Zahid Rahim, Uzma Rahim, Asma Rahim, Swaroopa Kinnera, Kashish Keswani Sunil, Abrar A Awan, Ayesha Hassan, Shahzaib Munir

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Pattern-based clinical recognition of diabetes-associatedFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Moaz MohsinAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Oluwaseyi OwasoyoAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Hafiz Muhammad Zahid RahimAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Uzma RahimAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Asma RahimAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Swaroopa KinneraAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Kashish Keswani SunilAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Abrar A AwanAcute Medicine, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, GBR.
Ayesha HassanStroke, Queens Hospital Center, Romford, GBR.
Shahzaib MunirPsychiatry, Withybush General Hospital, Haverfordwest, GBR.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 72-year-old male with a history of excessive alcohol intake (35+ units of alcohol daily) presented to the emergency department with bilateral vision loss, periorbital swelling, headache, and sinus congestion with bloody nasal discharge. He was newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and presented with severe diabetic ketoacidosis and a hypertensive emergency (blood pressure of 240/90 mmHg). Despite initial normal brain and orbital imaging, the clinical presentation was complicated by multiple life-threatening conditions and a prior immunocompetent status, thereby delaying the early suspicion of mucormycosis. This case underlines the diagnostic challenges in managing mucormycosis in a previously immunocompetent patient with overlapping critical conditions.

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alcohol dependencediabetes mellitusdiabetic ketoacidosis (dka)hyperglycemiahypertensionhypertensive emergencymucormycosisretinal artery occulusionrhinocerebral mucormycosisrhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis

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PMID39735014
PMCPMC11681835

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