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Volume 5 Issue 11 (November, 2017)

Case Reports

Ptosis in Diabetic- Third nerve Palsy or Mucormycosis? A Case Report
Hemika Gupta, Dhairya Parikh, Brijesha Dudhat, Shrikant Deshpande, Jayshree Ghanekar

Orbital mucormycosis, an opportunistic fungal infection is a rare but life threatening infection that generally occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus and other immune deficiency conditions. As such the condition is a medical emergency.  Early diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis is extremely important due to the aggressive course of the disease. Control of underlying disease must be established, metabolic abnormalities corrected and antifungal therapy should be combined with surgical debridement of all necrotic tissues. Hereby, we discuss a case orbital mucormycosis in a patient of diabetes mellitus which was treated by a combined approach involving, medical and surgical management.
Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, fungal infection, mucormycosis.

Corresponding author: Dr Hemika Gupta, Lecturer, Department of Ophthalmology, MGM Hospital, Kamothe, Mumbai, India

This article may be cited as: Gupta H, Parikh D, Dudhat B, Deshpande S, Ghanekar J. Ptosis in Diabetic- Third nerve Palsy or Mucormycosis? A Case Report. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2017;5(11):37-40.

 
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