Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings

BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus causes viral pneumonia characterized by lower respiratory tract symptoms and 19severe inflammatory response syndrome. Studies have suggested that the virus has a clinical course with the stepwise progression of clinical signs and symptoms and radiologic alterations....

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Autores principales: Zarrintan, Armin, Javadrashid, Reza, Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem, Zarrintan, Anita, Falahatian, Masih, Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296529/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43055-020-00225-y
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author Zarrintan, Armin
Javadrashid, Reza
Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem
Zarrintan, Anita
Falahatian, Masih
Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Mohammad
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Javadrashid, Reza
Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem
Zarrintan, Anita
Falahatian, Masih
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description BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus causes viral pneumonia characterized by lower respiratory tract symptoms and 19severe inflammatory response syndrome. Studies have suggested that the virus has a clinical course with the stepwise progression of clinical signs and symptoms and radiologic alterations. CASE PRESENTATION: In the present case report, we discuss two patients who presented with mild symptoms and CT imaging not suggestive of COVID-19, but subsequently had a rapid deterioration, with severe involvement happening in CT imaging. One of the patients survived the initial deterioration, but the other passed away. CONCLUSION: We suggest that the clinical course of the virus may be rapidly progressive in some patients, and special attention should be paid to patients being treated for the virus outside of the hospital as an outpatient.
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spelling pubmed-72965292020-06-16 Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings Zarrintan, Armin Javadrashid, Reza Tarzamni, Mohammad Kazem Zarrintan, Anita Falahatian, Masih Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Mohammad Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med Case Report BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus causes viral pneumonia characterized by lower respiratory tract symptoms and 19severe inflammatory response syndrome. Studies have suggested that the virus has a clinical course with the stepwise progression of clinical signs and symptoms and radiologic alterations. CASE PRESENTATION: In the present case report, we discuss two patients who presented with mild symptoms and CT imaging not suggestive of COVID-19, but subsequently had a rapid deterioration, with severe involvement happening in CT imaging. One of the patients survived the initial deterioration, but the other passed away. CONCLUSION: We suggest that the clinical course of the virus may be rapidly progressive in some patients, and special attention should be paid to patients being treated for the virus outside of the hospital as an outpatient. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-16 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7296529/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43055-020-00225-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Zarrintan, Anita
Falahatian, Masih
Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Mohammad
Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
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title_full Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
title_fullStr Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
title_full_unstemmed Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
title_short Rapidly progressive COVID-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
title_sort rapidly progressive covid-19 viral pneumonia: a report of two patients with a focus on imaging findings
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296529/
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