This Covid-induced complication reported in Delhi hospital could emerge as a silent killer
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As the coronavirus infection is wreaking havoc in India, medical experts in the country are increasingly worried about mucormycisis (Black Fungus), a disease triggered by Covid-infection. According to fresh reports, Gangaram Hospital in Delhi has witnessed some mucormycisis infection among patients, a kind of dangerous fungal infection.
What is Mucormycisis?
Mucormycisis, commonly known as Black Fungal infection, is a fungal infection triggered by Covid-19. This infection often turns deadly among people in transplants, ICUs, and immuno-deficient patients.
updated: May 07 2021, 18:53 ist
There is increasing evidence to suggest that Covid-19 is not just a disease of the lungs as initially thought but can also cause dangerous blood clots which need to be immediately retrieved to save limbs in some cases, say experts.
Global studies have shown that the prevalence of blood clot formation known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in hospitalised Covid-19 patients is 14-28 per cent and is a lower 2-5 per cent for arterial thrombosis.
The Indian experience is similar, said experts, stressing that the infection is about the blood vessels as much as about the lungs.
There is increasing evidence to suggest that COVID-19 is not just a disease of the lungs as initially thought but can also cause dangerous blood clots which need to be immediately removed to save limbs in some cases, say experts. Global studies have shown that the prevalence of blood clot formation known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in hospitalised COVID-19 patients is 14-28 per cent and is a lower 2-5 per cent for arterial thrombosis. The India experience is similar, said experts, stressing that the infection is about the blood vessels as much as about the lungs. We are dealing with five-six such cases per week on average. This week it has been one a day of such complications, said Dr Ambarish Satwik, vascular and endovascular surgeon at Delhi s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
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New Delhi, May 7
There is increasing evidence to suggest that COVID-19 is not just a disease of the lungs as initially thought but can also cause dangerous blood clots which need to be immediately retrieved to save limbs in some cases, say experts.
Global studies have shown that the prevalence of blood clot formation known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in hospitalised COVID-19 patients is 14-28 per cent and is a lower 2-5 per cent for arterial thrombosis.
The India experience is similar, said experts, stressing that the infection is about the blood vessels as much as about the lungs.
New Delhi:
Doctors at a foremost private hospital in Delhi reported an alarming rise in the cases of black fungus or Mucormycisis in COVID-19 patients.
What Is Mucormycosis or Black Fungus? Black fungus or Mucormycosis, previously known to the medical sciences as zygomycosis is a fungal disease that is triggered by the COVID-19 virus. It is a rare yet serious disease caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes that lives throughout the environment. Mucormycosis mainly acts on people who have health problems and weak immunity making their bodies inefficient to fight against infectious germs and illnesses. This disease has been proved to be fatal for patients in transplants, ICUs, and immunodeficient patients.