a case report of covid-19 and subacute thyroiditis in fars, iran

Subacute thyroiditis is a self-limited disease that commonly occurs with the direct toxicity of viruses, such as rubella, measles, coxsackie, adenovirus, etc., or following the inflammatory response against them. covid-19 can affect thyroid gland and causes subacute thyroiditis. a 60-years-old woman with the only symptom of anterior cervical pain (neck pain), without any other constitutional symptoms which lasted for two weeks, was referred to valiasr hospital located in fasa university of medical sciences, iran. nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs were detected positive for covid-19 using rt-pcr assay. according to ultrasonographic, laboratory (lowered tsh, elevated crp and esr), and physical findings, subacute thyroiditis was found following the sars-cov-2 infection. as subacute thyroiditis associated with sars-cov-2 may be represented without any fever, ruling out this infection in these patients is considerable.