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Multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism

Opportunistic infections associated with severe cortisol excess carry a high mortality rate and are most prevalent with ectopic ACTH syndrome. There are limited reports of these cases described in the literature. In this case report, we describe multiple severe life-threatening opportunistic infecti...

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Autores principales: Qassimi, Sarah Al, Nusair, Ahmad, Mooty, Mohamad, Ajmal, Adnan, Abdel-Ghani, Saaid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01420
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author Qassimi, Sarah Al
Nusair, Ahmad
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Abdel-Ghani, Saaid
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description Opportunistic infections associated with severe cortisol excess carry a high mortality rate and are most prevalent with ectopic ACTH syndrome. There are limited reports of these cases described in the literature. In this case report, we describe multiple severe life-threatening opportunistic infections due to endogenous hypercortisolism. Our patient, against numerous expectations, survived multiple opportunistic infections including disseminated invasive aspergillosis, Cytomegalovirus endophthalmitis and Pneumocystis Jirovecii pneumonia, reinforcing the need for multidisciplinary care for patients presenting with complicated hypercortisolism.
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spelling pubmed-88013762022-02-09 Multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism Qassimi, Sarah Al Nusair, Ahmad Mooty, Mohamad Ajmal, Adnan Abdel-Ghani, Saaid IDCases Case Report Opportunistic infections associated with severe cortisol excess carry a high mortality rate and are most prevalent with ectopic ACTH syndrome. There are limited reports of these cases described in the literature. In this case report, we describe multiple severe life-threatening opportunistic infections due to endogenous hypercortisolism. Our patient, against numerous expectations, survived multiple opportunistic infections including disseminated invasive aspergillosis, Cytomegalovirus endophthalmitis and Pneumocystis Jirovecii pneumonia, reinforcing the need for multidisciplinary care for patients presenting with complicated hypercortisolism. Elsevier 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8801376/ /pubmed/35145861 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01420 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism
title_full Multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism
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title_short Multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism
title_sort multiple concomitant life-threatening opportunistic infections due to uncontrolled hypercortisolism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8801376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35145861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01420
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