Yousef, Mohammad and Abdelazeem, Basel and Kalantary, Atefeh and Pratiti, Rebecca (2021) Late-Term Complications of COVID-19: Retropharyngeal Infection and Myocarditis in a 26-Year-Old Patient. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8 (10). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Deep neck space infection and viral myocarditis related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have both been described in the medical literature. However, there are only three reported cases of retropharyngeal infection as a presenting pathology in the setting of COVID-19.A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with fever and neck swelling and pain 1 month after COVID-19 infection. A computed tomography scan of the neck demonstrated tonsillitis with retropharyngeal infection. She was also found to have heart failure with an ejection fraction (EF) of <20% due to acute myocarditis. Her infection resolved and the EF improved to 40% prior to discharge.Our case is the first to describe retropharyngeal infection as a late complication in an adult with a history of COVID-19 several weeks previously. It also presented a clinical challenge in terms of tailoring goal-directed medical therapy to manage severe left ventricular dysfunction caused by myocarditis.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, deep neck space infection, retropharyngeal abscess, viral myocarditis |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2022 09:56 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 09:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21720 |
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