The man, who had lost his left eye a month earlier, was admitted to Seven Star Hospital on July 19 after a flesh-eating fungus developed at the base of his skull, threatening his right eye.
A month ago, a person who recovered from COVID after the first attack of black fungus was admitted to another private hospital. The septuagenarian was complaining of abdominal pain while undergoing treatment for mucormycosis relapse.
Doctors decided to treat both skull bone and abdominal pain in single anaesthesia. However, in laparoscopy, they did not find anything unusual related to abdominal pain.
Dr Prashant RahatThe endoscopist and laparoscopic surgeon said that the colonoscopies done twice in the previous private hospital did not find anything. “When the patient was transferred to our hospital, we did a laparoscopy. He had low blood pressure, so we inserted a tube and drained the pus before closing the abdomen,” said Dr. Rathe, the hospital’s director.
After the operation, the patient continued to complain of pain in the abdomen and he started bloating. “After two days, we did the laparotomy again. Black fungus was found on a 6-inch section of the sigmoid colon. Such incidents of mucormycosis have been reported in the medical literature,” he said, adding that such cases are rare.
Dr Rahat admitted that this is probably the first such case among the post-Covid patients in the district.
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