Radiologically Suspected Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient Recovering from COVID-19: A Case Report
Hyeonji Seo, Jiwon Jung, Min Jae Kim, Se Jin Jang, Sung‐Han Kim
Infection and Chemotherapy · 2021-03
Abstract
We report a case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated radiologically suspected organizing pneumonia with repeated negative Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results from nasopharyngeal swab and sputum samples, but positive result from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Performing SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in upper respiratory tract samples only could fail to detect COVID-19-associated pneumonia, and SARS-CoV-2 could be an etiology of radiologically suspected organizing pneumonia.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Pneumonia
- Sputum
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus
- Etiology
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
- Respiratory tract
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
- Respiratory disease
- Internal medicine
- Respiratory system
- Pathology