Culture-negative pleural empyema after Coronavirus disease-19 resolution – A case report

Even after more than a year, novel Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) clinical presentation and complications are still being reported. We present a 75-year-old patient with culture-negative pleural empyema a month after COVID-19 resolution without re-infection. We hypothesize that culture-negative e...

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Autores principales: Silalahi, Todung D.A., Suwita, Christopher S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34307016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101473
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description Even after more than a year, novel Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) clinical presentation and complications are still being reported. We present a 75-year-old patient with culture-negative pleural empyema a month after COVID-19 resolution without re-infection. We hypothesize that culture-negative empyema can be present in patients with immune defect, e.g., elderly or diabetic patients, and prior antibiotic exposure. Empyema after COVID-19 resolution may be related to delayed inflammation improvement in chronic disease, which resulted in the patient's more vulnerability to secondary infection.
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spelling pubmed-82670922021-07-20 Culture-negative pleural empyema after Coronavirus disease-19 resolution – A case report Silalahi, Todung D.A. Suwita, Christopher S. Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Even after more than a year, novel Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) clinical presentation and complications are still being reported. We present a 75-year-old patient with culture-negative pleural empyema a month after COVID-19 resolution without re-infection. We hypothesize that culture-negative empyema can be present in patients with immune defect, e.g., elderly or diabetic patients, and prior antibiotic exposure. Empyema after COVID-19 resolution may be related to delayed inflammation improvement in chronic disease, which resulted in the patient's more vulnerability to secondary infection. Elsevier 2021-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8267092/ /pubmed/34307016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101473 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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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title_fullStr Culture-negative pleural empyema after Coronavirus disease-19 resolution – A case report
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title_sort culture-negative pleural empyema after coronavirus disease-19 resolution – a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267092/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101473
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