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[Long-term survival in rhino-mucormycosis after conservative treatment]
Romero Aroca P1, Salvat Serra M, Perena Soriano F
1Unidad de Oftalmología, Servicio de Cirugía, Hospital Universitario San Joan de Reus, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía, Universidad Rovira y Virgili.
Archivos De La Sociedad Espanola De Oftalmologia
|January 11, 2001
Abstract
Objective/Methods:
We describe a case of rhino-mucormycosis, in a 52-year-old male, with diabetes mellitus type 2, III cranial nerve palsy and blindness due to obliteration of central retinal artery and vein of the right eye The patient was treated with anfotericin B and necrotic tissues exeresis of nasal and paranasal (ethmoidal, maxillar and esfenoidal) sinuses, without orbital exenteration.
Results/Conclusions:
After a follow up of five years, no type of relapse was detected, but neovascular glaucoma developed.