Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report

BACKGROUND: Dacryoadenitis is inflammation of the lacrimal gland, mainly caused by viral infection. It can also be caused by bacterial pathogens and non-infectious processes such as auto-immune diseases and malignancy. Chronic dacryoadenitis is rarely linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with only five r...

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Autor principal: Awada, Bassem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10594824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37872576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-04175-7
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description BACKGROUND: Dacryoadenitis is inflammation of the lacrimal gland, mainly caused by viral infection. It can also be caused by bacterial pathogens and non-infectious processes such as auto-immune diseases and malignancy. Chronic dacryoadenitis is rarely linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with only five reports in the literature. REPORT: A 26-year-old Arab woman experienced chronic inflammatory dacryoadenitis after a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, which was successfully treated with oral prednisone. CONCLUSIONS: Dacryoadenitis can occur due to inflammation caused by either SARS-CoV-2 exposure. The treatment typically involves the administration of steroids, with duration to be decided based on clinical response.
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spelling pubmed-105948242023-10-25 Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report Awada, Bassem J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Dacryoadenitis is inflammation of the lacrimal gland, mainly caused by viral infection. It can also be caused by bacterial pathogens and non-infectious processes such as auto-immune diseases and malignancy. Chronic dacryoadenitis is rarely linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection, with only five reports in the literature. REPORT: A 26-year-old Arab woman experienced chronic inflammatory dacryoadenitis after a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, which was successfully treated with oral prednisone. CONCLUSIONS: Dacryoadenitis can occur due to inflammation caused by either SARS-CoV-2 exposure. The treatment typically involves the administration of steroids, with duration to be decided based on clinical response. BioMed Central 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10594824/ /pubmed/37872576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-04175-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_full Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_fullStr Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_short Chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_sort chronic bilateral dacryoadenitis caused by sars-cov-2 infection: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10594824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37872576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-023-04175-7
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