New Microbes New Infect . A 33-year-old man with COVID-19 presented with subacute thyroiditis: A rare case report

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New Microbes New Infect


. 2021 Mar 22;100871.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100871. Online ahead of print.
A 33-year-old man with COVID-19 presented with subacute thyroiditis: A rare case report


Lotfollah Davoodi ¹ , Ziaeddin Oladi ² , Hamed Jafarpour ³ , Zakaria Zakariae ⁴ , Eissa Soleymani ⁵ , Alireza Razavi ³



Affiliations

• PMID: 33777402
• PMCID: PMC7982644
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100871

Abstract

We report the first case of the novel coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented with subacute thyroiditis (SAT) in Ghaemshar, Mazandaran Province, Iran. In our patient, with the initiation of corticosteroid therapy, the symptoms of SAT gently disappeared with the gradual increase in thyroid-stimulation hormone (TSH) and the gradual elimination of thyrotoxicosis. This case shows that decreased TSH and persistent thyrotoxicosis may make the patient's condition worse. Managing this complication can take several weeks and can be complicated.

Keywords: COVID-19; Subacute thyroiditis; infection.