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The woman was from Baghdad and had complained of recurrent swelling and pain in the parotid gland’s right side after drinking water and eating food.
Officials at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital informed on Monday that, in a recent operation, a team of multidisciplinary doctors saved the life of a 34-year-old patient by performing a surgery to remove a kidney, as well as a portion of his left lung, both of which, they said, were infected with mucormycosis, a complication found in several patients who recovered from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
Until now, most cases are managed initially with antibiotics and then treated with excision of the offending gland, which leaves an unsightly scar, and in some cases even a lower lip paralysis: Dr Varun Rai