Radiographic case report of a heart transplanted patient suffering from COVID-19
- In context of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), patients with certain comorbidities and high age, as well as male sex are considered to represent the risk group for severe course of disease. Corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) typical CT-patterns include bilateral, peripheral ground glass opacity (GGO), septal thickening, bronchiectasis, consolidation as well as associated pleural effusion. We report a 77-year-old heart transplanted patient with confirmed COVID-19 infection and coronary heart disease, diabetes type II and other risk factors. Notably, only slight clinical symptoms were reported and repeated computed tomography (CT) scans showed an atypical course of CT findings during his hospitalization.
Author: | Leona Soraja AlizadehORCiDGND, Moritz Hans Ernst AlbrechtORCiDGND, Christian BoozORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-780335 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06688 |
ISSN: | 2405-8440 |
Parent Title (English): | Heliyon |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/04/09 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/04/03 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2023/10/17 |
Tag: | COVID-19; Heart transplantation; Multidetector computed tomography; Thorax |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 4, e06688 |
Article Number: | e06688 |
Page Number: | 3 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 516008773 |
Institutes: | Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |