From the Department of Intensive Care Unit, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Exp Clin Transplant. 2022 Feb;20(2):213-217. doi: 10.6002/ect.2021.0317. Epub 2022 Jan 3.
Coronavirus disease 2019 increases transplant recipients' susceptibility to rare opportunistic infections as a consequence of the impairment that COVID-19 can cause in the immune system. Mucormycosis is a rare complication but has a high risk of fatal outcome. A 50-year-old woman who received a kidney transplant 10 years previously was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. During follow-up by the inpatient service, the patient developed pain, edema, and proptosis in the right eye. She was diagnosed with rhino-orbitalcerebral mucormycosis. This is the first reported case of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis in a renal transplant recipient with COVID-19 infection.
2019 年冠状病毒病会损害免疫系统,使移植受者更容易感染罕见的机会性感染。毛霉菌病是一种罕见的并发症,但病死率很高。一名 50 岁女性,10 年前接受肾移植,因 COVID-19 住院。在住院服务期间随诊时,患者右眼出现疼痛、肿胀和突出。她被诊断为鼻眶脑毛霉菌病。这是首例 COVID-19 感染的肾移植受者合并鼻眶脑毛霉菌病的报告病例。