Meng Xing, Liu Yan, Li Jun, Wang Liang, Shi Ruixue, Chen Ying, Zhu Yun, Zhuang Shifang
Department of Emergency Intensive Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Genskey Medical Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China.
IDCases. 2023 Aug 22;33:e01884. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01884. eCollection 2023.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease caused by SFTS virus (SFTSV). SFTS patients were prone to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), which was directly related to increased mortality. Here, we present a critical case of SFTS complicated by IPA in a previously healthy 58-year-old woman. On day 1, SFTSV and three different species were both detected in the patient's bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and blood through metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). After 17 days of treatment, the patient was still in poor condition and was once again detected in her blood through mNGS. Then her family decided to give up treatment because of financial problems and grave prognosis. She was discharged home and died the next day. Medical personnel should be alter to the possibility of IPA in SFTS patients due to its high mortality. mNGS may be used as an auxiliary diagnostic tool and efficacy-monitoring method for suspected SFTS complicated by IPA.
发热伴血小板减少综合征(SFTS)是一种由SFTS病毒(SFTSV)引起的新发传染病。SFTS患者易发生侵袭性肺曲霉病(IPA),这与死亡率增加直接相关。在此,我们报告一例58岁既往健康女性的SFTS合并IPA的重症病例。第1天,通过宏基因组下一代测序(mNGS)在患者的支气管肺泡灌洗液和血液中均检测到SFTSV和三种不同的菌种。经过17天的治疗,患者病情仍不佳,通过mNGS再次在其血液中检测到。随后,由于经济问题和预后严重,其家属决定放弃治疗。她出院回家,第二天死亡。由于IPA死亡率高,医务人员应警惕SFTS患者发生IPA的可能性。mNGS可作为疑似SFTS合并IPA的辅助诊断工具和疗效监测方法。