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Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report

BACKGROUND: Cavities are frequent manifestations of a wide variety of pathological processes involving the lung. There has been a growing body of evidence of coronavirus disease 2019 leading to a cavitary pulmonary disease. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 29-year-old Filipino male presented to the hosp...

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Autores principales: Egoryan, Goar, Hyser, Elise, Mushtaq, Ammar H., Yanez-Bello, Maria Adriana, Trelles-Garcia, Daniela Patricia, Friedman, Harvey J., Rodriguez-Nava, Guillermo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34256831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02961-9
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author Egoryan, Goar
Hyser, Elise
Mushtaq, Ammar H.
Yanez-Bello, Maria Adriana
Trelles-Garcia, Daniela Patricia
Friedman, Harvey J.
Rodriguez-Nava, Guillermo
author_facet Egoryan, Goar
Hyser, Elise
Mushtaq, Ammar H.
Yanez-Bello, Maria Adriana
Trelles-Garcia, Daniela Patricia
Friedman, Harvey J.
Rodriguez-Nava, Guillermo
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description BACKGROUND: Cavities are frequent manifestations of a wide variety of pathological processes involving the lung. There has been a growing body of evidence of coronavirus disease 2019 leading to a cavitary pulmonary disease. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 29-year-old Filipino male presented to the hospital a couple of months after convalescence from coronavirus disease 2019 with severe pleuritic chest pain, fever, chills, and shortness of breath, and was found to have a cavitary lung lesion on chest computed tomography. While conservative management alone failed to improve the patient’s condition, he ultimately underwent left lung video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery decortication. Even though the surgical pathology revealed only necrosis with dense acute inflammation and granulation tissue with no microorganisms, he gradually improved with medical therapy adjunct with surgical therapy. CONCLUSION: Documented cases of cavitary lung disease secondary to coronavirus disease 2019 have been mostly reported in the acute or subacute phase of the infection. However, clinicians should recognize this entity as a late complication of coronavirus disease 2019, even in previously healthy individuals.
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spelling pubmed-82768402021-07-14 Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report Egoryan, Goar Hyser, Elise Mushtaq, Ammar H. Yanez-Bello, Maria Adriana Trelles-Garcia, Daniela Patricia Friedman, Harvey J. Rodriguez-Nava, Guillermo J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Cavities are frequent manifestations of a wide variety of pathological processes involving the lung. There has been a growing body of evidence of coronavirus disease 2019 leading to a cavitary pulmonary disease. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 29-year-old Filipino male presented to the hospital a couple of months after convalescence from coronavirus disease 2019 with severe pleuritic chest pain, fever, chills, and shortness of breath, and was found to have a cavitary lung lesion on chest computed tomography. While conservative management alone failed to improve the patient’s condition, he ultimately underwent left lung video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery decortication. Even though the surgical pathology revealed only necrosis with dense acute inflammation and granulation tissue with no microorganisms, he gradually improved with medical therapy adjunct with surgical therapy. CONCLUSION: Documented cases of cavitary lung disease secondary to coronavirus disease 2019 have been mostly reported in the acute or subacute phase of the infection. However, clinicians should recognize this entity as a late complication of coronavirus disease 2019, even in previously healthy individuals. BioMed Central 2021-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8276840/ /pubmed/34256831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02961-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Egoryan, Goar
Hyser, Elise
Mushtaq, Ammar H.
Yanez-Bello, Maria Adriana
Trelles-Garcia, Daniela Patricia
Friedman, Harvey J.
Rodriguez-Nava, Guillermo
Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title_full Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title_fullStr Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title_short Development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
title_sort development of cavitary lung disease as a long-term complication of coronavirus disease 2019 in a young previously healthy patient: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34256831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-02961-9
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