ea0086p219 | Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes | SFEBES2022
Nair Krishna S
, Alagesan Murali
, Jose Dhanya
, Pappachan Joseph M
Background: Mucormycosis is a serious but rare angio-invasive fungal infection in high-risk patients with diabetes, organ transplantation, neutropenia, and hemochromatosis. The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with increased incidence of mucormycosis and the incidence has risen more rapidly during the second wave of pandemic in India. The clinical profiles and risk factors for severity and mortality are not very clear among patients with COVID-19 infected with mucormycosi...