Sub-Saharan African Journal of Medicine

CASE REPORT
Year
: 2014  |  Volume : 1  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 53--55

Disseminated norcardial infection in a patient with myasthenia gravis on prolonged steroid therapy: A case report


Farouq M Dayyab1, Tiamiyu B Abdulwasi'u1, Edwin P Chinagozi2, Garba Iliyasu3, Habib G Abdulrazaq3, Ibrahim Nashabaru3, Muhammad Hamza3, Mahmoud Dalhat1, Sirajo Halliru1, Habib G Zaiyad1 
1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
2 Department of Microbiology, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
3 Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria

Correspondence Address:
Garba Iliyasu
Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit, Bayero University Kano, Kano
Nigeria

This article presents the clinical manifestation of Norcardial infection in the setting of iatrogenic immunosuppression. The patient suffered from myasthenia gravis for which he received a prolonged course of high dose steroid. At the time of presentation he had lesions in the brain, lungs, and soft tissue consistent with Norcardial infection. He developed disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) and acute kidney injury (AKI) and died on the 12 th day in intensive care unit (ICU).


How to cite this article:
Dayyab FM, Abdulwasi'u TB, Chinagozi EP, Iliyasu G, Abdulrazaq HG, Nashabaru I, Hamza M, Dalhat M, Halliru S, Zaiyad HG. Disseminated norcardial infection in a patient with myasthenia gravis on prolonged steroid therapy: A case report.Sub-Saharan Afr J Med 2014;1:53-55


How to cite this URL:
Dayyab FM, Abdulwasi'u TB, Chinagozi EP, Iliyasu G, Abdulrazaq HG, Nashabaru I, Hamza M, Dalhat M, Halliru S, Zaiyad HG. Disseminated norcardial infection in a patient with myasthenia gravis on prolonged steroid therapy: A case report. Sub-Saharan Afr J Med [serial online] 2014 [cited 2024 Mar 29 ];1:53-55
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