Volume 25, Issue 113, July 2021

Garcin syndrome: A rare complication of rhinocerebral mucormycosis in post covid patient

Sanyukta Hepat¹, Abhijit Wadekar^2♦, Aditi Goyal³, Samarth Shukla⁴, Sourya Acharya⁵, Sunil Kumar⁶

¹Post graduate resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Post graduate resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Post graduate resident, Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁴Professor, Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁵Professor and HOD, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁶Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Post graduate resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta meghe institute of medical sciences (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Rhino cerebral mucormycosis (RCM) is now one of the rapidly emerging opportunistic, destructive and angioinvasive fungal infection with a very high mortality and morbidity. Early diagnosis of this condition is difficult as there are lacks of specific clinical features or manifestations. Garcin syndrome is more often caused by skull base and rhinopharyngeal tumors or metastases, and basal meningitis. Here we report an elderly female who was post covid status and presented with rhinocerebral mucormycosis and went on to develop garcin syndrome.

Keywords: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis, Garcin syndrome, COVID

Medical Science, 2021, 25(113), 1788-1794

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