Successful Outcomes of Severe COVID-19 in Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Diagnostic Challenges in Immunocompromised Hosts

The emergence and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus have led to an unprecedented public health crisis around the globe, threatening the lives of millions of people. We report a severe case of COVID-19 in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and describe primarily the clinical presentation and...

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Autores principales: Malek, Alexandre E., Gutierrez, Cristina, Mulanovich, Victor E., Botdorf, Joshua, Chemaly, Roy F., Shah, Shivan, McCall, Brandi M., Melancon, Judd T., McConn, Kelly K., Borjan, Jovan, Raad, Issam I., Burger, Jan A., Garcia-Manero, Guillermo, Adachi, Javier A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32670522
http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2020.044
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Sumario:The emergence and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus have led to an unprecedented public health crisis around the globe, threatening the lives of millions of people. We report a severe case of COVID-19 in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and describe primarily the clinical presentation and the challenges encountered in the COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, and specimens sampling pitfalls. This case highlights the importance of a comprehensive diagnostic approach of pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts, including timely and safe bronchoscopy, because of the broad differential diagnosis, more challenging with the current outbreak of COVID-19.

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