Medical Mycology Case Reports (Mar 2022)

Pulmonary aspergillosis and cryptococcosis as a complication of COVID-19

  • Edward C. Traver,
  • Melanie Malavé Sánchez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35
pp. 22 – 25

Abstract

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Invasive fungal infections may complicate infection by SARS-CoV-2 and increase morbidity and mortality. A 59-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities was transferred to our hospital for worsening hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 and received high-dose corticosteroids and 2 doses of cyclophosphamide. He was diagnosed with pulmonary aspergillosis and cryptococcosis by culture of a bronchoalveolar lavage sample. This patient's secondary infections were likely due to treatment with immunosuppressants, his comorbidities, and his prolonged critical illness.

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