Medical Must-See: Toddler’s tiny injury leads to rare fungal infection
The 'exceptional' case shows that even immunocompetent patients can contract mucormycosis, her doctors report.
A minor eye wound turned into a major infection for a 15-month-old girl from Pakistan, who developed potentially lethal mucormycosis despite nothing to suggest she was immunocompromised.
She had fallen from her bed and sustained a small cut near her left eye, initially dismissed as a minor injury.
But over three weeks, her left eye began bulging, displaying severe swelling, proptosis and redness.
A CT scan revealed sinusitis in her right ethmoid and maxillary sinuses, with an orbital mass.
