Persistent Pneumonic Consolidations due to Secondary Organizing Pneumonia in a Patient Recovering from COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Case Report and Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: In patients recovering from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, respiratory symptoms and radiographic pneumonic infiltrate occasionally persist for many weeks even after viral clearance; thereby, making it difficult to decide on an appropriate treatment. Here, we describe a 46-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia who had persistent radiographic pneumonic infiltration and respiratory symptoms for almost 4 weeks after illness onset, despite viral clearance, and was subsequently diagnosed with secondary organizing pneumonia (SOP) using video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) wedge lung biopsy. Intravenous methylprednisolone was administered at an initial dose of 50 mg/day (1 mg/kg) for 7 days and was tapered to a dose of prednisolone 30 mg/day following improvement in the patient's r

SUBMITTER: Hong KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079436 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature