Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings

Coronavirus-19 disease is an acute respiratory syndrome infection that primarily infects the lungs, and may extend to other organs such as the cardiovascular system. Here we describe the case of a 90-year-old woman, affected by heart failure (NYHA, class III), with bilateral Covid-19 pneumonia, comp...

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Autores principales: Messina, Francesco, Turano, Lorena, Tebala, Carmela, Calabrese, Grazia, Arcadi, Nicola
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7988447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.03.044
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author Messina, Francesco
Turano, Lorena
Tebala, Carmela
Calabrese, Grazia
Arcadi, Nicola
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description Coronavirus-19 disease is an acute respiratory syndrome infection that primarily infects the lungs, and may extend to other organs such as the cardiovascular system. Here we describe the case of a 90-year-old woman, affected by heart failure (NYHA, class III), with bilateral Covid-19 pneumonia, complicated by pleural and pericardial effusion. An unenhanced Computed Tomography, urgently made, allowed to hospitalize and treat the patient, monitoring her clinical situations.
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spelling pubmed-79884472021-03-24 Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings Messina, Francesco Turano, Lorena Tebala, Carmela Calabrese, Grazia Arcadi, Nicola Radiol Case Rep Case Report Coronavirus-19 disease is an acute respiratory syndrome infection that primarily infects the lungs, and may extend to other organs such as the cardiovascular system. Here we describe the case of a 90-year-old woman, affected by heart failure (NYHA, class III), with bilateral Covid-19 pneumonia, complicated by pleural and pericardial effusion. An unenhanced Computed Tomography, urgently made, allowed to hospitalize and treat the patient, monitoring her clinical situations. Elsevier 2021-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7988447/ /pubmed/33777279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.03.044 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title_full Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title_fullStr Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title_full_unstemmed Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title_short Pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with Covid-19 pneumonia: CT findings
title_sort pericardial and pleural effusion in an elderly woman with covid-19 pneumonia: ct findings
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7988447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.03.044
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