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authors: Meshram, Hari S.; Kute, Vivek B.; Chauhan, Sanshriti; Desai, Sudeep
title: Mucormycosis in post‐COVID‐19 renal transplant patients: A lethal complication in follow‐up
date: 2021-06-16
journal: Transpl Infect Dis
DOI: 10.1111/tid.13663
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doc_id: 811795
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Post-COVID-19 mucormycosis has been exclusively reported in general population 1 but the data is scarce in transplantation.2 . 3 Herein we report two cases of post-COVID-19 mucormycosis (Table 1) in renal transplant recipients who were admitted at IKDRC-ITS which is a high-volume transplant center in India. The first case was a 47-year aged gentleman transplanted 17 years ago. He developed diabetes 1.5 years back and was on oral hypoglycemic drugs (OHA) with well controlled blood sugars.

Post-COVID-19 mucormycosis has been exclusively reported in general population, 1 but the data are scarce in transplantation. 2, 3 Herein, we report two cases of post-COVID-19 mucormycosis (Table 1 ) in renal transplant recipients who were admitted at IKDRC-ITS which is a high-volume transplant center in India. The first case was a 47-year aged gentleman transplanted 17 years ago.

He developed diabetes 1.5 years back and was on oral hypoglycemic drugs (OHA) with well-controlled blood sugars. His baseline serum creatinine was 1.08 mg/dl. He developed a fever for 3 days and was admitted as mild-COVID-19 for 7 days. Post-discharge, he developed swelling over the face and was admitted with this complaint on the seventh post-discharge day. On examination, the patient had a black nasal discharge. MRI-PNS showed invasive sinusitis of left orbital, left pre-maxilla and infratemporal fossa cellulitis with minimal dural enhancement in the left middle cranial fossa. 

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All have contributed equally for preparation of the manuscript.

Data available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. 

Department of Nephrology and Clinical Transplantation, Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Center

Sudeep Desai

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