A Rare Case of Pituitary Apoplexy Secondary to Dengue Fever-induced Thrombocytopenia.
dengue
pituitary apoplexy
thrombocytopenia
Journal
Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 Aug 2019
05 Aug 2019
Historique:
entrez:
21
8
2019
pubmed:
21
8
2019
medline:
21
8
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is an endocrine emergency resulting from hemorrhage or infarction within a pituitary tumor or non-tumorous pituitary gland. The most important predisposing factors for PA are cerebral angiographic procedures, systemic hypertension, surgeries, head injury, coagulopathies, and drugs. Thrombocytopenia is a risk factor for PA. Dengue fever causes thrombocytopenia and there are reported cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever predisposing to PA. But there are no reported cases of dengue fever per se predisposing to PA, and we report such a case in an 85-year-old elderly male who presented with features suggestive of a hypertensive emergency and, on evaluation, was found to have a pituitary incidentaloma and dengue fever. During the hospital course, he developed acute III
Identifiants
pubmed: 31428546
doi: 10.7759/cureus.5323
pmc: PMC6695243
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
e5323Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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