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Case Reports
. 2021 May:41:100871.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100871. Epub 2021 Mar 22.

A 33-year-old man with COVID-19 presented with subacute thyroiditis: A rare case report and literature review

L Davoodi  1 , Z Oladi  2 , H Jafarpour  3 , Z Zakariaei  4 , E Soleymani  5 , A Razavi  3
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A 33-year-old man with COVID-19 presented with subacute thyroiditis: A rare case report and literature review

L Davoodi et al. New Microbes New Infect. 2021 May.

Abstract

We report the first case of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presenting with subacute thyroiditis in Ghaemshar, Mazandaran Province, Iran. In our patient, with the initiation of corticosteroid therapy, the symptoms of subacute thyroiditis gradually disappeared with a slow increase in thyroid-stimulating 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: Coronavirus disease 2019; corticosteroid therapy; infection; subacute thyroiditis; thyroid-stimulating hormone.

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Chest CT showed bilateral peripheral ground-glass opacification.
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