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Thyrotoxicosis Induced by Thyroid Involvement of Disseminated Aspergillus fumigatus Infection

2000; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 38; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/jcm.38.2.886-887.2000

1098-660X

Mathias W. Hornef, Jochen Schopohl, Christian Zietz, Klaus Hallfeldt, Andreas Roggenkamp, Roland Gärtner, Jürgen Heesemann,

Infectious Diseases and Mycology

ABSTRACT Aspergillus fumigatus is increasingly recognized as an important nosocomial pathogen in severely immunocompromised patients. Infection is difficult to diagnose antemortem and typically has a fatal outcome. Here we report the case of a cardiac transplant recipient with disseminated A. fumigatus infection which clinically presented as thyrotoxicosis due to massive involvement of the thyroid gland.