Atypical autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 overlapped by chronic HCV infection resulting in carcinogenesis and fatal infection

South Med J. 2008 Jul;101(7):756-8. doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318179a490.

Abstract

The case of a woman with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, autoimmune thyroiditis, atrophic gastritis, pernicious anemia, and immunologic thrombocytopenic purpura consisting of autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 3 associated with a history of gonadal failure is reported. Hepatitis C viral infection added xerophthalmia, lymphocytic sialadenitis, and exacerbation of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. This unique disease constellation was complicated with splenic marginal zone lymphoma and gastric carcinoids. A lung infection, initially treated on an outpatient basis, proved fatal to the patient.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Fever of Unknown Origin / complications
  • Hepatitis C, Chronic / complications*
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma / complications*
  • Malignant Carcinoid Syndrome / complications*
  • Middle Aged
  • Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune / complications*
  • Splenic Neoplasms / complications*