Determinants of stroke in patients with rhino cerebral mucormycosis seen during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Shweta Pandey (Author), Hardeep Singh Malhotra (Author), Ravindra Kumar Garg (Author), Kamini Sharma (Author), Imran Rizvi (Author), Sukriti Kumar (Author), Neeraj Kumar (Author), Ravi Uniyal (Author), Praveen Kumar Sharma (Author), Prashant Gupta (Author), Amita Jain (Author), D. Himanshu Reddy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Rhino cerebral mucormycosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection of the nasal sinuses and brain, and a group of saprophytic fungi causes it. During the second wave of COVID-19, India witnessed an unprecedented number of patients with rhino cerebral mucormycosis. Invasion of the caverno...