Table 1.
Pooled prevalence of proportion of various clinical presentations described among COVID-19-associated rhino-orbito-cerebral mucormycosis patient population
| Clinical feature | Number of studies/reference | Event/total | Pooled data |
SE | Over all P | Heterogeneity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pooled proportion | 95% CI | I2 (%) | Tau 2/Q/DF | Heterogeneity P | |||||
| Clinical feature | |||||||||
| Loss of vision | 10[6,14,25,26,27,29,35,38,39,44] | 71/141 | 0.537 | 0.282-0.793 | 0.130 | <0.001 | 93 | 0.151/147.530/9 | <0.001 |
| Lid edema | 9[25,26,29,31,34,35,37,39,43] | 35/70 | 0.515 | 0.278-0.751 | 0.121 | <0.001 | 84 | 0.105/52.026/8 | <0.001 |
| Ophthalmoplegia | 8[14,29,30,31,35,37,38,43] | 66/107 | 0.573 | 0.395-0.751 | 0.091 | <0.001 | 72 | 0.042/25.310/7 | <0.001 |
| Proptosis | 8[14,26,29,35,37,38,39,43] | 56/95 | 0.606 | 0.385-0.826 | 0.112 | <0.001 | 87 | 0.082/56.483/7 | <0.001 |
| Facial edema | 6[29,34,35,37,39,43] | 19/52 | 0.347 | 0.216-0.477 | 0.067 | <0.001 | 9 | 0.003/5.514/5 | <0.001 |
| Palatal involvement | 3[26,29,44] | 13/21 | 0.575 | 0.162-0.989 | 0.211 | 0.006 | 79 | 0.104/9.717/2 | 0.008 |
| Ptosis | 4[14,26,29,39] | 26/37 | 0.727 | 0.534-0.920 | 0.099 | <0.001 | 53 | 0.020/6.458/3 | 0.091 |
| Pupil involvement | 3[14,26,31] | 11/19 | 0.581 | 0.362-0.801 | 0.112 | <0.001 | 0 | 0.000/0.356/2 | 0.837 |
| Palatal Eschar | 6[26,29,34,35,38,44] | 20/74 | 0.356 | 0.058-0.654 | 0.152 | 0.019 | 91 | 0.120/59.771/5 | <0.001 |
| Optic nerve involvement | 2[34,35] | 4/17 | 0.230 | 0.031-0.430 | 0.102 | 0.023 | 0 | 0.000/0.163/1 | 0.687 |
| Nasal blockage | 2[29,39] | 3/25 | 0.118 | −0.008-0.244 | 0.064 | 0.067 | 0 | 0.000/0.067/1 | 0.796 |
| Radiological feature | |||||||||
| Sinonasal involvement | 4[24,38,39,43] | 47/79 | 0.549 | −0.013-1.11 | 0.287 | 0.056 | 98 | 0.319/235.393/3 | <0.001 |
| Rhino-orbital involvement | 8[7,14,26,31,37,39,43,44] | 165/259 | 0.708 | 0.539-0.877 | 0.086 | <0.001 | 87 | 0.044/57.998/7 | <0.001 |
| Intracranial spread | 13[6,7,14,24,25,26,27,29,32,35,37,39,44] | 103/333 | 0.428 | 0.297-0.560 | 0.067 | <0.001 | 82 | 0.042/69.656 | <0.001 |
| Involvement of orbital apex | 2[14,34] | 8/21 | 0.257 | −168-0.882 | 0.268 | 0.183 | 89 | 0.129/9.578/1 | 0.002 |
| Involvement of cavernous sinus | 8[26,29,30,31,32,37,38,39] | 36/132 | 0.403 | 0.22-0.595 | 0.098 | <0.001 | 88 | 0.059/60.787/7 | <0.001 |
CI=Confidence interval, SE=Standard error