Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection is spreading worldwide, and there are many reports of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by this infection. However, asymptomatic lung involvement has not been reported. We hereby present the case of a 44-year-old health-care worker, who was found t...

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Autores principales: Asadollahi-Amin, Ali, Hasibi, Mehrdad, Ghadimi, Fatemeh, Rezaei, Hosnieh, SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7344491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32272630
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020056
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author Asadollahi-Amin, Ali
Hasibi, Mehrdad
Ghadimi, Fatemeh
Rezaei, Hosnieh
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description The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection is spreading worldwide, and there are many reports of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by this infection. However, asymptomatic lung involvement has not been reported. We hereby present the case of a 44-year-old health-care worker, who was found to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus after a CT-scan performed for an unrelated condition revealed a lesion in the lung field compatible with COVID-19 infection. His condition deteriorated initially, but eventually improved with supportive treatment and the compassionate use of antivirals and antimalarials and is now in a stable condition.
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spelling pubmed-73444912020-07-14 Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report Asadollahi-Amin, Ali Hasibi, Mehrdad Ghadimi, Fatemeh Rezaei, Hosnieh SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infection is spreading worldwide, and there are many reports of acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by this infection. However, asymptomatic lung involvement has not been reported. We hereby present the case of a 44-year-old health-care worker, who was found to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus after a CT-scan performed for an unrelated condition revealed a lesion in the lung field compatible with COVID-19 infection. His condition deteriorated initially, but eventually improved with supportive treatment and the compassionate use of antivirals and antimalarials and is now in a stable condition. MDPI 2020-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7344491/ /pubmed/32272630 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020056 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Asadollahi-Amin, Ali
Hasibi, Mehrdad
Ghadimi, Fatemeh
Rezaei, Hosnieh
SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad
Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title_full Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title_fullStr Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title_short Lung Involvement Found on Chest CT Scan in a Pre-Symptomatic Person with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report
title_sort lung involvement found on chest ct scan in a pre-symptomatic person with sars-cov-2 infection: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7344491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32272630
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed5020056
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