{"id":10730,"date":"2021-07-01T06:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsasikanth.com\/?p=10730"},"modified":"2021-07-01T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:16:00","slug":"mucor-mycosis-black-fungus-and-plastic-surgery-reconstruction-with-cosmesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsasikanth.com\/mucor-mycosis-black-fungus-and-plastic-surgery-reconstruction-with-cosmesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mucor mycosis (black fungus) and Plastic surgery Reconstruction with Cosmesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A lot of unfortunate patients suffering from or recovering from covid infection are facing a new problem now, the black fungus. The course of the treatment of the mucor is surgical and medical. Most commonly the areas infected by the mucor are mostly the sinuses initially. Later the infection may involve the orbit (eye socket), cheek bone(maxilla), palate and sometimes the base of skull and brain in which case the risk to life is very high. The initial treatment for black fungus infections is surgical removal of the infected material from sinuses and other areas initially combined with antifungal injections. But the infection sometimes involves the surrounding bones and muscles and soft tissues in which case those involved must be removed for quick control of infection and decrease the load on medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the decreasing incidence of corona virus infections, the number of black fungus infections are also on decrease. Many of those patients who survived the corona and black fungus may face a different problem now and may be in near future. That is the resultant disfigurement resulting due to the removal the infected bones and soft tissues of the face leading to multiple facial deformities, sinking of eyeball due to removal of floor of orbit, palatal fistulas leading to communication between nose and mouth, loss of jaw bones and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These kinds of disfigurement presents a unique and very difficult challenge to the medical fraternity especially to plastic surgeons who perform the recontruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are multiple options for reconstruction depending on the type of the defect. The process of reconstruction generally involves a basic principle of replacing the lost tissues with similar tissues harvested from the rest of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n