Nasa Prashant, Mathew K G, Sanker Rakesh, Chaudhary Sandeep, Singhal Vikas
Department of Critical Care Medicine, NMC Speciality Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Department of Surgery, NMC Speciality Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Indian J Crit Care Med. 2018 Aug;22(8):613-615. doi: 10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_151_18.
Acute suppurative thyroiditis with thyroid abscess is very uncommon cause of thyroiditis. Thyroid infection in a diabetic patient is commonly labeled to the relative immunosuppressive state of diabetes mellitus. We present a case of a diabetic patient showing clinical symptoms of acute thyroiditis with progressing dysphagia, who was diagnosed as thyroid abscess as a result of . The infection in the absence of other significant history was initially considered ; however, on extensive evaluation was associated with other distant primary source of the same microbe. The patient was managed with minimally invasive drainage of abscess and intravenous antibiotics.
急性化脓性甲状腺炎伴甲状腺脓肿是甲状腺炎非常罕见的病因。糖尿病患者的甲状腺感染通常归因于糖尿病相对免疫抑制状态。我们报告一例糖尿病患者，表现出急性甲状腺炎的临床症状并伴有进行性吞咽困难，最终被诊断为甲状腺脓肿。在没有其他重要病史的情况下，最初认为感染是孤立发生的；然而，经过广泛评估，发现与同一微生物的其他远处原发灶有关。该患者接受了脓肿微创引流和静脉注射抗生素治疗。
