Clinical course of a critically ill patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

ABSTRACT: Although several studies have reported on the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), clinical course of the most severe cases requiring treatment in ICU have been insufficiently reported. A 73-year-old man traveling on a cruise ship with history of hypertension and dyslipidemia developed high fever, dyspnea and cough after 7 days of steroid treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss, and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in sputa polymerase chain reaction (PCR) examination. His respiratory function deteriorated despite treatments with lopinavir/ritonavir, oseltamivir, azithromycin and meropenem at a regional hospital. He was intubated and transferred to the ICU in the tertiary university hospital on d

SUBMITTER: Takahashi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7298923 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature