AN UNEXPECTED COMPLICATION IN THE TREATMENT OF BASEDOW’S DISEASE: ACUTE CANDIDA STOMATITIS
Abstract:
The endocrine ophthalmopathy (exophthalmia) is a quite frequent affection in Basedow’s disease. In the absence of treatment, its evolution is most frequently self-limited, but there are patients who develop severe complications, a real threat for the view. The authors present the case of a patient with severe endocrine ophthalmopathy, who, upon the initiation of corticotherapy i.v., 1000 mg/day, developed angular cheilitis and acute candida stomatitis. Finally, the authors focus on the fact that, in all the cases in which a person is submitted to corticotherapy, extra – oral mycosis centres of contagion or the risk factors for the fungi infection of the oral cavity should be detected, through anamnesis and clinical examination.
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