Disseminated invasive aspergillosis in patients with severe influenza infection

oleh: Grégoire Monseau, Mathilde Wairy, Marie Flores, Kevin Brunet, Faustine Reynaud, Damien Marie, Florence Boissier, Delphine Chatellier, Anne Veinstein, Jean-Pierre Frat, René Robert, Arnaud W. Thille

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Elsevier 2020-01-01

Deskripsi

A female 66 year-old patient, not immunocompromised, was admitted in ICU for severe influenza complicated by severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) leading to extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). During ICU hospitalization, she developed a disseminated invasive aspergillosis with cerebral access and coronary occlusion which lead to cardiac arrest. Despite a successful revascularization procedure, the patient died of refractory shock.