RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Necrotising myopathy and concurrent thyroiditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
JF BMJ Case Reports
JO BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e242234
DO 10.1136/bcr-2021-242234
VO 14
IS 6
A1 Christopher Reggio
A1 Anish Paudel
A1 Charles S Specht
A1 Anthony A Donato
YR 2021
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/6/e242234.abstract
AB A 76-year-old man with hypogammaglobulinemia on monthly intravenous immunoglobulin infusions presented to the hospital with fever, cough, and shortness of breath and was diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia requiring intensive care unit admission but not intubation. He was treated with convalescent plasma, remdesivir and corticosteroids. Sixteen days into his hospitalisation he began to report weakness without sensory symptoms and was found on biopsy to have a necrotising myopathy.