IDCases (Jan 2020)

Disseminated invasive aspergillosis in patients with severe influenza infection

  • 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

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20
p. e00777

Abstract

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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.