Shocking News from Patna! Cricket ball-sized Black fungus removed from Man's brain

New Delhi: The symptoms of black fungus have also started showing different from normal symptoms of coronavirus. One such unique case came up in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, the capital of Bihar.

Cricket ball sized Black fungus:

In this, by entering through the nose, the fungus reached the brain directly affecting the eyes and sinuses. This is the first case in Bihar in which black fungus has been observed in the brain. However, the experts of the institute have successfully removed the black fungus infection by performing a daunting brain surgery which is equivalent to a cricket ball.

Mucormycosis cases in Patna:

Dr Rakesh, Head of the Department of ENT said that 60-year-old Anil Kumar, a resident of Jamui, was having epilepsy-like seizures. He was falling unconscious again and again and his condition was getting serious.

He had this problem for 15 days. Earlier he was getting treatment at home itself. When relatives brought him to IGIMS, it was found in the investigation that there is a black fungus infection in the brain. After this it was decided that his surgery should be done at the earliest.

3 Hour complex operation:

Doctors at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences have removed a fungus bigger than a cricket ball from the patient's brain after a three-hour complex operation. The patient was suffering from epilepsy due to the formation of a web of fungus in the brain without damaging the eyes. After removing the fungus and more than 100 mg of pus, the doctors declared the patient out of danger.

According to the doctors involved in the surgery team, the fungus had completely engulfed the brain in the last two weeks. When the patient came to the hospital, his condition was very bad. Usually black fungus damages the eyes before reaching the brain, but this patient had no ill effects of black fungus on the eyes.

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