Abstract

MUCORMYCOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH POST-COVID-19 DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS IN THE NORTHWEST REGION OF THE PROVINCE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Renato Mataveli Ferreira Filho, Antonio Neres Norberg*, Fernanda Castro Manhães, Milena de Souza Furtado Ávila, Pamela Ribeiro Nonato Borges, Pamela Xavier Abelha Corrêa, Stella Casagrande Mazioli, Clara dos Reis Nunes, Thaís Rigueti Brasil Borges and Simone de Oliveira Lopes

ABSTRACT

Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus or zygomycosis, is an opportunistic, progressive, necrotizing disease with high morbidity and mortality caused by ubiquitous, free-living fungi of the order Mucorales. This manuscript presents a case report of a 49-year-old patient with diabetes and hypertension as comorbidities who developed mucormycosis in a post-COVID-19 period. The patient died on the thirty-second day of hospitalization. This case report warns about the possibility of COVID-19 acting as a trigger for diabetic ketoacidosis that could predispose to an infrequent invasive fungal infection, which escapes the pattern of secondary infections experienced in medical practice before the pandemic.

Keywords: Mucormycosis, COVID-19, diabetes, hypertension, secondary infection.