[Brain death due to neuroaspergillosis in a patient with COVID-19]

C G Videla; M Agustina; P X de la Iglesia Niveyro; M Ciarrocchi Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.redar.2022.01.002

[Brain death due to neuroaspergillosis in a patient with COVID-19]

Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim. 2022 Nov;69(9):592-596. doi: 10.1016/j.redar.2022.01.002. Epub 2022 Feb 9.

[Article in Spanish]

Authors

C G Videla¹, M Agustina¹, P X de la Iglesia Niveyro², M Ciarrocchi Nicolas¹

Affiliations

¹ Adult Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
² Unidad de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Abstract
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Co-infections between SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens is an important consideration for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Aspergillus infections are part of this consideration since they present high morbidity and mortality. We present the case of a patient with COVID-19 and Aspergillus Fumigatus coinfection that evolves with brain death due to multiple heterogeneous lesions in the brain, which after a post-mortem biopsy found pathological lesions compatible with Aspergillus.

Las coinfecciones entre SARS-CoV-2 y otros patógenos son una cuestión importante para el tratamiento de los pacientes con COVID-19. Las infecciones por Aspergillus forman parte de esta consideración, ya que presentan elevada morbimortalidad. Presentamos el caso de un paciente con coinfección de COVID-19 y Aspergillus fumigatus que evolucionó a muerte cerebral debido a múltiples lesiones heterogéneas en el cerebro donde, tras biopsia post-mórtem, se encontraron lesiones patológicas compatibles con Aspergillus.

Keywords: Muerte cerebral; Neuroaspergilosis.

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Abstract in English, Spanish

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Abstract
in English, Spanish