Lineup for Plastic Surgeries gets increased with rise in Mucor cases

Hyderabad: With an outsized number of patients having to undergo surgeries for the mucormycosis ( Mucor cases) , the majority are being left with deformities that need the surgical reconstruction. As a result, currently, there’s an extended queue for plastic surgeries, say doctors. While these surgeries are likely to stay plastic surgery departments busy for the next six to eight months a minimum of, post recovery prosthetics (fake eyes, in some cases eye with eyelids, etc.) are going to be required by an outsized number of individuals. So far, over 250 removal surgeries have been performed within the city, doctors add.

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“Patients with the foremost severe presentations are getting to need plastic surgeries and artificial devices,” said Dr Tarjani Vivek Dave, ophthalmic plastic surgeon, at LV Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad. 

“In such cases, not only the attention but an outsized part of the eyelids is removed to make sure  the infection does not spread. Some cases have exposure of the bone. These sorts of cases require plastic surgeries before moving on to prosthetics,” he added. 

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An outsized number of eye removal surgeries are performed within the past many months at the different eye institutes. Dave said many patients are now reaching out early due to rising awareness, and in such cases, doctors are ready to save the attention. However, the requirement of surgeries and duplicates are probably going to extend. This is especially because tons of kids are contracting mucormycosis (black fungus).

“We expect somewhere around July a large number of patients may require prosthetic rehabilitation,” Dave said.

Dr V Rajalingam sir, superintendent at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital Mehdipatnam, which has now begun the mucormycosis surgeries also called as Mucor Cases, said: “While presently our goal is to control the spread of the infection of black fungus by removing the infected part from the body, and the external reconstruction, artificial eyes and other things also, which are for the appearance, will take place around three to 6 months after the surgery is done.”

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