Pituitary Apoplexy as a Complication of COVID-19 Infection

Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a complication occurring due to hemorrhage and/or infarction in a pituitary adenoma due to various pathophysiological mechanisms. Herein, we report a case of a 47-year-old previously healthy male who presented with fever and reduced level of consciousness for one day. Duri...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Hassan, Janaka, KVC, Muthukuda, DT, Perera, SG
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10500954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719628
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43524
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description Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a complication occurring due to hemorrhage and/or infarction in a pituitary adenoma due to various pathophysiological mechanisms. Herein, we report a case of a 47-year-old previously healthy male who presented with fever and reduced level of consciousness for one day. During the hospital stay, he was diagnosed with PA in a background of pituitary macroadenoma along with positive nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even though the PA was successfully managed, the patient succumbed four days after admission due to respiratory failure caused by severe COVID-19 pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-105009542023-09-15 Pituitary Apoplexy as a Complication of COVID-19 Infection Hussain, Hassan Janaka, KVC Muthukuda, DT Perera, SG Cureus Internal Medicine Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a complication occurring due to hemorrhage and/or infarction in a pituitary adenoma due to various pathophysiological mechanisms. Herein, we report a case of a 47-year-old previously healthy male who presented with fever and reduced level of consciousness for one day. During the hospital stay, he was diagnosed with PA in a background of pituitary macroadenoma along with positive nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Even though the PA was successfully managed, the patient succumbed four days after admission due to respiratory failure caused by severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Cureus 2023-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10500954/ /pubmed/37719628 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43524 Text en Copyright © 2023, Hussain et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hussain, Hassan
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Pituitary Apoplexy as a Complication of COVID-19 Infection
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title_short Pituitary Apoplexy as a Complication of COVID-19 Infection
title_sort pituitary apoplexy as a complication of covid-19 infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10500954/
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