New Delhi: After Mukormycosis (Black Mushroom), another fungal infection has been detected in the four patients restored by Covid in Pune in the past three months, raising worries between health brotherhood.
Prabhakar * (66) complained of lightweight fever and severe lower back pain after recovering from Covid-19.
He was originally treated conservatively with muscle relaxants and nonstoneoid anti-inflammatory drugs without assistance.
Scanning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reveals bone damage led by severe infection in spinal-disc spaces called spondylodaciscis.
Bone biopsy and culture grow species aspergillus – type of mold (fungi).
Medically called Aspergillus osteomyelitis, invasive fungal infections are very difficult to diagnose when mimicing TBS Salisma.
Such fungal infections have been detected in the mouth cavity of patients restored covid, and, in rare cases, in the lungs.
“We diagnosed Vertebrae osteomyelitis caused by Aspergillus mushroom species in four patients in three months.
Prior to this, Osteomielitis Vertebra Aspergillus has not been documented in post-covid patients in India,” Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital infectious diseases Parikshit Prayag experts to TOI.
The general thread in four is that they have severe covid and treated steroids to get covid related pneumonia and related complications.
“The use of long-term corticosteroids can increase the risk of opportunistic infection, depending on the underlying disease that is being treated and other drugs used,” he said.
Prasag has diagnosed the first patient with Aspergillus vertebralic osteomielsis three months ago.
“We took the fourth case of this month.
The four patients underwent treatment,” Prayag said.